Tompolo: The Billionaire Militant -TheNEWS Africa

caption: Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo-The billionaire militant

By Temitayo Odunlami
Government Ekpemupolo  a.k.a. Tompolo, a former militant has risen to become a strong ally of the federal government, and a billionaire businessman
Only three years ago, he was a fugitive. In May 2009, Brigadier-General Sarkin Yaki Bello, commander of the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, in Niger Delta, had declared Government Ekpemupolo the most wanted man in Nigeria. Bello had fingered Ekpemupolo, or Tompolo, as he is widely known, and his band of militants in the Gbaramutu creeks of the Niger Delta as executing the killing of 11 soldiers – one officer and

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