More prominent individuals of the Niger Delta region have continued to publicly deny links with rampaging separatist group, the Niger Delta Avengers.
The latest personality to debunk link with the group is former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.
A factional group of the Niger Delta Avenger, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, had on Saturday in a statement by its spokesperson, Cynthia Whyte named Tompolo as one of the group’s financiers.
But the former militant leader in a statement by his spokesman, Paul Bebenimibo, on Monday, described the report as untrue.
According to the statement, spokesperson to the former militant leader maintained that Tompolo had nothing to do with the group.
It reads, “In the same report, my boss, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo was also mentioned as one of the sponsors of the NDA.
“My initial decision was to ignore the said report as a result of the source and the bogus nature of the story; however, in order to set the records straight, I decided to write to dissociate my boss and myself from that wicked and malicious report.
“I wish to advise the Nigerian government to look for better ways to resolve the Niger Delta problem, and not to continue to compound the issue by relaying on voodoo means to resolve the issue, like this particular report which could be likened to a voodoo report.
“If a people, that is the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers have claimed to part ways with the NDA, after destroying almost all the oil facilities in the Niger Delta region, and turn around to claim that they have repented and mentioned some people as sponsors and operatives of the NDA, then the government and people of this country need to know such people (RNDA) and treat them accordingly, and not the responsible Nigerians they mentioned as sponsors and operatives.”
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