Ex-Niger Delta agitator seeks President Tinubu’s review of pipeline surveillance contract

Mr Endurance Amagbein, a former Niger Delta agitator, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to review the pipeline surveillance contracts in the region.
Amagbein, a self-styled “General,” made the call on Wednesday in a statement released in Abuja by his media assistant, Mr. Mightywind Dudafa.
“I want President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to review the surveillance regime in the Niger Delta so that one person from one kingdom does not control pipelines in another kingdom.
“Also, I want the Federal Government to investigate the complaints of non-payment of salaries while I worked under Tantita Security Services,” he said.
He said “President Tinubu is not the problem of the people of Niger Delta.”
The ex-militant attributed the problem in the region to “the selfish and greedy surveillance contractors who have sabotaged the system by deviating from the President’s efforts at peace in the Niger Delta.”
According to him, in the light of the above, the gunboat oil politics should be reviewed by the government in order to incorporate indigenous participation in the oil and gas surveillance contacts for lasting peace.
“I want to reiterate that my support to the Tinubu-led administration remains steadfast, and I want to urge all my supporters and people across the Ijaw struggle platform to queue behind the present administration,” he added.
Amagbein said the aim of military-civilian relations all over the world is to achieve a safe and better society where there is peace, political stability, development and economic growth – devoid of insurgency, oppression and suppression.
He said it was, however, disheartening that the reverse is the case in the Niger Delta region
“There have been so much tensions in the region because, rather than giving useful information to the military for the purpose of peace and progress, some persons in Ijaw nation have decided to betray the trust the armed forces reposed in them.
“They are deliberately giving false information to the military for selfish reasons – to help them neutralise their political enemies and those who dare to oppose their continued oppression,” he alleged.

Amagbein said his case was pathetic because the same people he served and devoted his time, energy and resources to are the ones witch-hunting him for expressing his political views, after refusing to pay him for securing over 1,000 pipelines for them for several months.”

He said he wrote protest letters to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and the office of the National Security Adviser, following non-payment of his salaries, to no avail.

“In the light of the above, I want to urge our government and the service chiefs to do proper investigations before carrying out military actions against anyone,” he said.