BREAKING: Author releases Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, Wanted Man in Camp Four in Delta

By Chukwuma Emmanuel

The famous writer and winner of the 2004 Isidore Okpewho Prize for Literature, Dr. Enewaridideke Ekanpou, has formally released new books entitled Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, and The Wanted Man in Camp Four in Warri, Delta State today’s 9th October 2026.

The books contained strong emphasis about the Niger struggle, environmental degradation, developmental backwardness, injustice, leadership betrayal, oppression, exploitation, cultural indestructibility, the insensitivity of the multinational oil companies to the plight of the oil-producing communities, and the need for value re-orientation in the society.

The additional books released alongside Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, and The Wanted Man in Camp Four, which cut across poetry and drama, were Sandbanks in River Forcados, The Honourable Commissioner, The Strong Blood, The Raffia Palm Tree, You Must Leave Ekameta Tomorrow, The Imbeciles, and The Imprisonment of Ebi in the Coven.

It was learned that the nine books thematically dwell on the issues that threatened peaceful co-existence, cultural exchanges and growth, rapid development and nationhood in a country abundantly endowed with natural and human resources. Specifically, the play The Wanted Man in Camp Four, explores the Niger Delta struggle, resilience, aspirations of the Niger Delta people and how they risk everything to challenge oppression and demand justice from the federal government and the multinational oil companies.

It also talked about the themes of resistance, sacrifice, betrayal, leadership, land disputes, peace and development are examined in The Wanted Man in Camp Four. “The book, Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, which explores the contradictions, paradoxes and vissicitudes of human existence, demonstrates man’s capacity for witch-hunting, instigation, image-destruction, and praise-singing into the hearts of those they once sought to destroy through betrayal and instigation”, the statement added.

“In Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, Dr Ekanpou creatively cuts the image of an environmental advocate and a moral conscientiser. In the books, Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers, and The Wanted Man in Camp Four, a clear navigable path is morally explored and charted for the society to walk on for a better world to be attained by mankind”, the statement read.

Speaking at the formal release of the books, the award-winning author Dr. Ekanpou, commended JKing Dr. Izonebi Alfred, Ijaw highlife musician for his acquisition of 200 copies of the books even before the books were formally unveiled and released to the public.