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Vol 56 No 25

Published 18th December 2015


Nigeria

Taking down Tompolo

As politics fizz and oil prices crash, the government targets the capo di tutti i capi of the Niger Delta militants

One of the shrewdest and wealthiest militant leaders in the Niger Delta, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, faces a legal battle that could provoke a new political showdown in the region. State investigators have already unearthed enough material to ask some awkward questions about Tompolo and his business partners: senior politicians, oil companies and British and Norwegian officials who approved the delivery of a fleet of armed vessels to him two years ago.

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