– Security agencies comb the creeks for Tompolo
– Reports suggest the Niger Delta militant leader plans to flee the country
– EFCC moves to seize Tompolo’s assets
Security agencies have mounted surveillance at the airports as part of strategies to apprehend Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo over his refusal to appear in court to face trial for alleged corruption.
Tompolo is believed to have gone underground to evade prosecution by the EFCC.
The Punch reports that the decision by security agencies to mount surveillance at airports was informed by reports that Tompolo is planning to flee the country anytime soon.
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In order to secure his capture, combine operatives of the Department of State Services and Nigeria Immigration Service have been directed to look out for Tompolo at the airports to prevent his escape.
Tompolo and nine others are facing a charge of N45.9bn fraud preferred against them by the EFCC but all efforts to get the militant war lord to appear in court has proved abortive.
Festus Keyamo, counsel to the EFCC on Friday, February 19 told a federal judge that the whereabouts of Tompolo were unknown.
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According to Premium Times, Festus Keyamo informed the court that the warrant of arrest issued on Tompolo had not been executed despite the best efforts of all the combined team of Nigerian police and military officers who had been combing the creeks for weeks without success.
Meanwhile, pending when Tompolo will appear to answer charges of fraudulent activities leveled against him the EFCC, the anti-graft agency has applied to a Federal High Court in Lagos for an order to seize some assets belonging to the former Niger Delta militant leader.
The application dated February 18, 2016 was filed by Festus Keyamo in pursuant to sections 80 and 81 of the administration of criminal justice act 2015.
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