IGBO-SON:


^^^Inasmuch as this story leaves a bad taste in the mouth, how different is this Tompolo guy to the thieving politicians, born-to-rule cabal, thieving contractors and lazy/jobless quota-system enabled civil servants (that spend a greater part of the working day cutting deals)?

It's his turn to chop, and those that have been chopping since the late 60s ( wearing the unmerited garb of respectable gentlemen) shouldn't begrudge him his own share abeg!

I tend to overlook all this b'cos anyone acting all holier-than-thou and taking umbrage at his latest acquisition need to first ask what kind of setup do we have in Nigeria that leads to the emergence of a 'Tompolo'; but to do this they first have to dislodge their block heads from the sand!

Tompolo carry go abeg.....na your oyel money be that bros......enjoy am!


PS-Anyone wey no like am fit go hug transformer!

Billyonaire: It is our oil naw, whats all these noise about private jet bought by a prince of Oil. I need Asari Dokubo to buy a private jet too. I need more jets for our freedom fighters. We shall prevail. Our journey has just begun.

Our Igbo brothers, join us in celebrating the first of the jets for our freedom fighters. The dream of Ojukwu in the region of the Yellow Sun shall prevail, one way or the other.

Billyonaire: Only one Private Jet ? I am disappointed if he bought just one.

And I hope its brand new jet please. We need more owners of private jets in the Niger Delta.

pDude: Before nko?

If he didn't buy I would have been surprised.


Abeg who get Nokia pin mouth charger?

bad meat: Another Niger deltan progresses!the west n north turns green with envy,if una no like niger delta why not let us be on our own!must we be one,my fellow NDs flux the wealth,any body wey nor like am make drink acid

$ugardaddy:
What most Nigerians don't know is that our President has the mind set of the average ND militant:-

IT IS OUR OIL, WE CAN GET IT ANYHOW, USE THE PROCEEDS ANYHOW AND DO NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHOSE OX IS GORED!

Unfortunately, no nation survives under a leader with such a mind set. Barring divine intervention, it is only a matter of time before this country plunges into full scale armed conflict.

May God save Nigeria from all the forces that have now held it hostage.

agitator:

You better get ready, or relocate to Benin republic.

stormm:


http://saharareporters.com/article/opportunity-cost-tompolo%E2%80%99s-private-jet-kikiowo-ileowo

At this point in time, in the middle of 2013, we occupy the presidency, with a president of Niger Delta stock, a Niger Delta first lady, and with the most significant of the president’s aides also having their roots in the Niger Delta. Additionally, we have Ex- Niger Delta Warlord Generals, having significant direct and regular access to the presidency, while also executing multi-billion Naira annual security and surveillance contracts with respect to our maritime borders and our most significant export product [worth in excess of N25bn annually]; petroleum resources. Furthermore there is a presidential Amnesty program worth over N60bn annually, and well into its 4th year, and from which we are told some 33,000 [so-called ex-militants] have benefited. And finally there is the Niger Delta Ministry [well over 3 years old], as well as the special intervention agency, NDDC!
Let us not forget that since the 1999 return to civil rule, all the Niger Delta states have been governed by executives, legislatures and Judiciaries from the Niger Delta; while it is also true that under the rule of Niger Deltans, the region has received in federal allocations and derivation funds well in excess of N8tn since 1999.
The question begging to be asked is this; What has been the lot of the Niger Deltan Environment, as well as the teeming mass of Niger Deltans all through this period?

For starters, never in the entire history of the Niger Delta has the region’s environment been subjected to this level, scope and intensity of environmental degradation! We are speaking of a daily oil spill rate of well over 30,000 barrels per day, consistently over a period of more than 3 years!
We are speaking of a less than 20% completion rate for NDDC projects across the Niger Delta [according to the report of a Presidential Monitoring and assessment committee set up by President GEJ]! We are here making reference to a situation where the budget of a supposedly short-term intervention project, the Presidential Amnesty program [which has reached 33,000 supposed ex-militants; itself a fraud, for no nation could have survived a sustained militancy of more than 30,000 armed insurgents], has consistently dwarfed the budget of the Niger Delta Ministry, which is expected to tackle developmental challenges facing the Niger Delta! And we have also not factored into the calculation, the short changed annual budgets of the NDDC, which since its formation would have amounted to more than N1tn!

stormm:


http://saharareporters.com/article/opportunity-cost-tompolo%E2%80%99s-private-jet-kikiowo-ileowo

Yet inspite of all these huge investments under the direct control of Niger Deltans; and inspite of the opportunities presented by this moment in history, with a president of Niger Delta stock; what have we got to show for all these as ordinary Niger Deltans? What is the current state of infrastructure and basic services across the Niger Delta after all these years? Why are millions of Niger Delta youths still unemployed and unemployable? Why is the East-West Road still under construction [a state it has been in for more than two decades]?
Yes it is true we now have quite a few of us who have become fabulously and mind bogglingly rich in a short space of time; yes we now have Ex-Militant Generals who are multi-billionaires courtesy of maritime and oil pipeline security and surveillance contracts! And of course we now have politicians, and political office holders who have become some of the wealthiest Nigerians, and who have more palatial houses in Abuja, Lagos, and overseas than there are houses [huts included] in the villages of the Niger Delta from which they hail!
So was this what we fought for? Was this the reason why the Ogoni Bill of Rights; the Kiaima Declaration of Ijaw Youths; and the Manifesto of the Chikoko Movement were made/proclaimed/issued?

Did we launch a collective struggle for a collective and shared Resource Control? Or was it simply just a struggle to enrich a few and launch them into the circuits of the treasury looting and collective wealth pillaging circuits of the Nigeria ruling class?

Shine It: Damn! You guys would have heart attack when you see his private yatch.

He deserve's it and if you don't like it, hug a transformer.

stormm:


http://saharareporters.com/article/opportunity-cost-tompolo%E2%80%99s-private-jet-kikiowo-ileowo