Tompolo, Otuaro and that Jude Gbaboyor from the Lunatic Asylum, By Enewaridideke Ekanpou

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou

Trouble is a word conceptually blessed with differing views. For Timiebi Maika the trouble with Nigeria is spiritual and cultural decay; for Rev. Mother Margaret Ekotoro the trouble with Nigeria is the dearth of religious ecumenism; for Chinua Achebe the trouble with Nigeria is the lack of effective leadership. For Jude Gbaboyor and their cohorts the trouble with Nigeria is High Chief Dr. Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) and High Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaro in their approaches to crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism and the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Are Tompolo and Otuaro actually the trouble with Nigeria in general and the Niger Delta in particular? Is the firing of deadly verbal salvos from the lunatic asylum, targeted at Tompolo and Otuaro, not the trouble with Nigeria in general and the Niger Delta in particular, Mr Jude Gbaboyor?

Geographically, for a cosmically decreed purpose, the wind blows seasonally at normal times.Wilfully against Tompolo and Otuaro a verbal wind blows malevolently without seasons. The vision-driven positions of Tompolo and Otuaro are the propellers of this seasonless verbal wind weighted to provoke ideological deflections and shifts in their principled stand on the dark component of life where inanities and evil thrive without chastising forces of dissuasion intentionally activated.

It is thought that for Tompolo he has brought upon himself disorientating stings of disorderly verbal bees by his avowal to see a seamless sail of development to every part of Niger Delta.This is allied to his vision to end crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism coupled with his philosophical opposition to ritual killing, child trafficking and dehumanisation in any form however disguised.

Tompolo is a man always defined by very healthy ideals. In all the ideals relentlessly pursued through the platform of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, he is daily powered by the core values of his traditional mysticism centred on Egbesu, the Ijaw god of justice and war against man-made obscenities.

Egbesu’s aversion to blood-shedding, ritual killing and child trafficking is known to everybody. The immediate karma that stems from violation of these sacrosanct codes and ideals is also known to every worshipper . For perpetrators of ritual killing and child trafficking, for apostles of Niger Delta underdevelopment who barter their selfish individual growth and self-aggrandisement for the underdevelopment of Niger Delta, Tompolo is their problematic ‘Abiku’ who operationally dismantles the space for these evil people to perpetrate their atrocities against humans and the Nigerian economy.

It is an easily predictable phenomenon, even without the gift of clairvoyance, that whenever the piracy-consolidated operations of buccaneers on high sea are strategically dismantled, their anger is frustratingly vented on every conceivable object. This is the phenomenon that clearly explains why verbal attacks on Tompolo and Otuaro have become either an endless stream of arrows or a wind that blows malevolently without marked seasons from those hounds from the lunatic asylum led by Gbaboyor whose racketeering paths have gone fallow, overgrown with giant trees.

In every environment there are public commentators with streaks of lunacy. For such lunatic self-appointed national commentators and analysts with a tacit support for the raving lunatics ably led by Gbaboyor, the verbally diseased and malevolent activities of these infidels of national and Niger Delta development targeted at Tompolo, are a true reflection of the man and how this widely applauded Niger Delta freedom activist is viewed by true Niger Deltans. Wishfully, may you be butchered into small pieces and be thrown into the river over your supportive sacrilegious analysis! Enomenane!

Gbaboyor and and his cohorts are not only demented in their parroted perceptions; they are vapidly theatrical too. Like Dr. Otuaro’s highly trusted fellow Niger Deltan, Dr. Tompolo, the PAP Administrator Otuaro – as malevolently created, exaggerated and noised from Africa to America and from America back to Africa in teleguided videos and manipulated press releases meant for benighted and gullible minds – has reprehensibly stepped on the red line. Red line?Could anything be more vapidly theatrical than this perception?

Stepping on the said red line over which all the derogatory names on earth have been heaped on Otuaro’s head without demand and merit, is rooted in the ways he has run the Amnesty Programme based on his own flawless principle of borderless administration bound to actualise the objectives behind the creation of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. This administrative daring to keep the PAP in functional alliance with the original ideals and objectives is the open invitation to a verbal wind that blows malevolently against him without seasons. For these infidels of national and Niger Delta development, Dr. Otuaro has fearlessly challenged the gods by trying to breathe an air of administrative sanity into the Presidential Amnesty Programme without consulting them for directions that are obviously deadly.Who are they to be consulted when they are all inhabitants of the lunatic asylum?

Prior to the coming of Dr. Otuaro to the PAP office, proxies and cronies were used by these stinking eggs in the Presidential Amnesty Programme to deprive the genuine PAP beneficiaries of their entitlements. The ‘cronies-proxies arrangement’ criminally consolidated, the stipends of the beneficiaries were shared with the proxies and cronies while the real beneficiaries were shortchanged. Probably, it is these manipulative activities that have made it difficult for genuine beneficiaries of the PAP from Akparemogbene community and Oyangbene community to benefit from the PAP right from 2009, even after they have surrendered all their arms. They are supposed to be documented and integrated into the programme but they are still waiting for integration after all the formalities.On assumption of duty, Dr. Otuaro administratively activated a mechanism that marked the end of the use of proxies and cronies in the programme, though the awaiting Akparemogbene and Oyangbene beneficiaries are yet to be integrated into the programme because of the manipulative activities of racketeering syndicates that were there before Otuaro took over. However, I am very optimistic that Dr. Otuaro will address the issue of those from Akparemogbene and Oyangbene communities still waiting to be integrated into the PAP.

Scholarship commercialisation was a lucrative engagement in the PAP before Dr. Otuaro’s arrival. So rampant was this phenomenon that the PAP was seen as a home of scammers where huge sum of money was collected from prospective students with the vague promise that scholarship slots would be given to them to study abroad. In the end these promised scholarship slots became mere vapour, or at best, some overzealous students were fobbed off with fake scholarships that took them nowhere. Again, Dr. Otuaro institutionally strengthened the internal structures that eventually deactivated the ruinous reign of these scholarship racketeering syndicates in the PAP.

Criminality-consolidated racketeering syndicates saw the PAP as a healthy experimentation ground for racketeering engagements activated to the detriment of the programme. The multi-billion naira Skills Training Centre in Kaiama of Bayelsa State had been invaded and looted by these criminals before Dr. Otuaro’s tenure. The equipment and facilities in the centre were carted away by the mastermind of this invasion. Confidential information and classified documents were also routinely leaked to the public by these criminals.

Routinely leaked confidential information and classified documents always ignite conflagration in the Niger Delta among ex-agitators. Adequately briefed on the shenanigans that once characterised the Amnesty office and as a proactive step, Dr. Otuaro quickly created institutional reforms that made it totally impossible for the worms of manipulation and destruction to thrive. He did not target any individual; he merely fortified the system administratively, built on strategies proactively streamlined against the resurgence of racketeering syndicates in the PAP office.

Administratively waterproofed against the eruption of racketeering syndicates, the perpetrators of atrocities in the PAP office are now in every public space in Africa and America with the unbelievable propaganda that Dr. Tompolo and Dr. Otuaro are ritual killers and human traffickers who deserve the punitive axe of President Tinubu and President Donald Trump. For these individuals from the lunatic asylum led by Jude Gbaboyor, Tompolo and Otuaro must be relieved of the pipeline surveillance contract and the Amnesty office. What a pernicious thought this is? Perish the thought immediately!

In the naive and mentally distorted thoughts of these infidels from the lunatic asylum, President Donald Trump must move against Tompolo and Otuaro over their baseless accusations which are only products of their progressive mental retardation. Is President Trump a pupil to be ordered and dictated to act according to the whims and caprices of confirmed, OSSIFIED lunatics in the Niger Delta?

The world knows who Dr. Tompolo is and what he does as a freedom and development activist. The world also knows who Dr. Otuaro is and what he does as the PAP boss. The noble activities of these two persons are well known to all Nigerians. The world does not need an instigatory propaganda from Jude Gbaboyor and his cohorts from the lunatic asylum to know Tompolo and Otuaro. Everybody knows them and their capacity of performance in their various national engagements.

Delusionally characterising Tompolo and Otuaro as two personalities with roots in ritual killing, child trafficking and illegal detention of people in Oporoza signals the peak of mental deterioration, debility and incapacitation.The mental story of Gbaboyor is indeed a familiar one in the Niger Delta. Long known to be stricken by schizophrenia, dementia, megalomania, narcissism and ‘Amnestimosainism’, the lunatic Gbaboyor is driven irrationally by delusions of success in his naked theatrical dance to demarket Tompolo and Otuaro in Nigeria and beyond so that the two great personalities could be unjustifiably relieved of their separate national assignments that are well attuned to the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. What a demonic wishful thinking from the lunatic asylum!

Even without prior update, Presidents Donald and Tinubu know a raving lunatic when they see one. Only a raving lunatic is prodigiously blessed and endowed with the capacity to create multiple stories around Tompolo and Otuaro from carefully shielded hideouts without verifiably believable frameworks.This is what the isolated lunatic does daily like a maniacal bulbul.

A propagandist like Jude Gbaboyor and his cohorts from the lunatic asylum do not merit responsive salvos fired here – even if occasionally – in defence to place things in their normal order. To ignore his ravings would have been the best option except for the gullible minds digitally exposed to his endless propagandist dance.

Confessionally, there is indeed a trouble with Dr. Tompolo and Dr. Otuaro.The trouble with Tompolo and Otuaro is that Jude Gbaboyor is troubled that High Chief Dr. Tompolo and High Chief Dr. Otuaro are consistently consistent with their philosophy that crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism must stop and that the Presidential Amnesty Programme must be healthily run in line with the objectives that necessitated its creation .

I know that for Gbaboyor he will always drum up anti-Tompolo propaganda; for Gbaboyor he will always drum up anti-Otuaro propaganda, beginning from Africa to America and from Africa back to America like the propaganda once targeted at Wole Soyinka captured in the book THE MAN DIED. For Gbaboyor his propaganda will know no end because he is the perfect example of Chinua Achebe’s The Trouble with Nigeria. This is attested to by the fact that in all positions Gbaboyor had held so far for the past few years within the Presidential Amnesty Programme , his deficiency was the dearth of effective leadership required. I think Achebe should have entitled his book: THE TROUBLE WITH JUDE GBABOYOR. Better still, must we have Jude Gbaboyor educated by that exceptionally talented Gospel Artiste, Youpele Yola,
anchored on the insistence that he stop forthwith his languid propaganda now that it is still three o’clock because it is over when it is six o’clock?

The entire world knows that the trouble with Nigeria is neither Tompolo nor Otuaro. Gbaboyor and his cohorts from the lunatic asylum must be reminded in a very simple language that Achebe is very unambiguous in tracing the trouble with Nigeria. For Achebe in his book, THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA’, he says: The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership…The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership’ (1).This is the leadership lacuna currently provided by Tompolo in Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited through the war strategically waged against crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism, using non-kinetic approach. Similarly, this leadership lacuna that once bedevilled the PAP is being tackled effectively by Otuaro through his borderless policy of administration. It is, therefore, only in a republic inhabited by Gbaboyor and his cohorts from the lunatic asylum that revels in calling Tompolo and Otuaro image-battering names with a clandestine target ‘to remove them from channels’ – as Barrister Soja Smooth would say in his musical masterpiece, ‘Total Setup’.

Dr. Ekanpou writes from Akparemogbene, Delta State.