Arewa coalition asks FG to award railway security contract to Tompolo

A group under the Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Groups, (CACSG) has lauded the federal government of awarding the oil pipeline surveillance contract to High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

The youths’ coalition who commended Tompolo for providing security for the country’s national asserts, urged Federal Government to award security of other critical infrastructures like railway to him.

The group’s spokesperson, Aminu Abbas, said: “There’s nothing wrong if the Federal Government engages their services to help secure other critical infrastructure, aside the pipeline in our country, to complement the efforts of the armed forces.”

In a news briefing, CACSG stressed “there is need to involve host communities in the quest to ensure proper safeguarding of government facilities,” adding that it’s high time government reached out to people like Tompolo and other gallant individuals to deploy their native strength and expertise to assist the conventional security agencies.

Abbas argued that having considered the vast experience and capacity of Tompolo in peace and conflict resolution, it amounted to an insult to assign only little portion of the country’s critical infrastructure to him for surveillance.

He asserted: “The Nigerian railway requires surveillance as well; therefore, nothing is wrong if the Federal Government engages their services to help secure other critical prone infrastructure.

“Condemnation of the contract by some groups from the North is baseless; hence we distance the good people of Northern Nigeria from such a myopic action of some faceless groups camouflaging under the name of Arewa.”