The Ijaw Youths Network has cautioned those spreading rumours and lies against the chairman of Tantita Security Services Limited, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.
The IYN in a statement signed by its coordinator, Frank Ebikabo and secretary, Federal Ebiaridor yesterday urged those who have repeatedly associated Tompolo with a non-existent stroke to desist.
The body urged Nigerians to ignore the antics of a group of individuals who had consistently displayed alarming pettiness over the issue of renewal of Tantita’s pipeline contract with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
The IYN noted that the public appearances of High Chief Tompolo during a festival at Ogulagha and others should properly inform the “mischief makers” that the Tantita boss “is hale and hearty and as fit as fiddle.”
Ebikabo and Ebiaridor said Tompolo is too focused on the fight against oil theft to be distracted by cheap mischief by associates of oil thieves.
They also stressed that the claim that the Tantita chairman and the revered Itsekiri monarch, the Olu of Warri were at each other’s throat is absurd and wicked.