EFCC secures property seizure order against Tompolo

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday, secured a seizure order against all identified properties belonging to ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo.

The order was granted by Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, upon an application brought before him by the EFCC.

The anti-graft agency had told the court that the Police and the Military have combed the creeks for about two weeks without finding Tompolo, who the court ordered arrested and brought before it to answer to charges bordering on money laundering proffered against him by the EFCC.

It would be recalled that Justice Ibrahim Buba had issued a warrant for the arrest of Tompolo on February 8, 2016 after he shunned repeated invitations to appear before the EFCC for questioning. The EFCC also declared him wanted last week.

When the case resumed on Friday, Tompolo was not represented in court by any lawyer, prompting the EFCC prosecutor, Festus Keyamo to request the leave of the court to seperate the charges against the accused persons. Tompolo was charged to court alongside a former director general of NIMASA, Patrick Akpolomene.

The properties ordered seized include property at No. 1 Chief Agbamu Close DDPA Extension Warri (Effurun), Delta State, All property of Muhaabix Global Services Ltd; a River Crew Change Boat named MUHA – 15; the property known as “Tompolo Dockyard”, by the end of Enerhen Road, Effurun, Warri.

Others are; a property known as “Tompolo Yard”, at the end of Chevron Clinic Road, next to Next Oil, Edjeba, Warri; the Diving School at Kurutie, at Escravos River; the property known as “Tompolo House” at Oporaza Town, opposite the Palace; and any other property discovered by the EFCC, movable and immovable, belonging to the first accused person.

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