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The presidency’s fact-finding team, headed by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo , yesterday had a closed door meeting with ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo and other Niger Delta agitators.
The fact finding team was set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the troubled Niger Delta region and obtain first-hand information from the people in order to understudy the problems and frequent conflicts between the region and government
TheNewsGuru gathered from a very reliable source that the Osinbajo-led team which started its job at Oporoza, traditional headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom [home base of Tompolo], had a meeting with the ex-militant leader.
According to our source the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh had earlier held a meeting with the militants to prepare the ground for Osinbajo’s visit to N/Delta.
Our source added, “Prior to Osinbajo’s visit several other meetings took place between federal government representatives and the militants at Benin, Abuja and other places before the militants finally agreed to meet with the vice president.”
The meeting between Osinbajo and Tompolo our source said had in attendance Minister for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, Boroh, Tompolo himself, Itsekiri’s Ayiri Emami, representatives of the Niger Delta Avengers among other agitators in the region.
Full details soon…