The executive members and Board of Trustees of the Egbema Youth Council, EYC, in Egbema Kingdom, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, have condemned a publication by its president and secretary, Comrades City Eferesuoa and Governor Ekpokeme, respectively, describing such act as an "unguided" use of the Council's name to reaffirm General Aroni Oputu's demand to take charge of pipeline surveillance security contract in the kingdom.

Recall that Oputu, an ex-agitator and former Special Adviser on Security to ex-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, had demanded outrightly from the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, their own percentage of the pipeline security surveillance contract, saying that Egbema people can no longer continue to live like slaves while an individual collects the entire bloc of pipeline surveillance contract from the Federal Government.

But the EYC, responding through its vice president, Comr. Aaron Daniel, to the purported publication made by Eferesuoa and Governor giving backing to Oputu's demand on the pipeline surveillance contract in Warri North against Tompolo, was made without any critical consultation among the executive and stakeholders of the Council.

Aaron said that, himself, in conjunction with other executive members, condemn the stand of the duo earlier published in an online medium, and described such act as "mischievous and politically motivated" stressing that it was done without consultation before conducting the affairs of the Council.

The vice president also disclosed that the said president and the secretary had earlier been given a sanction letter through parliament, including stakeholders and the BoT, due to their mismanagement of funds, misconduct and other unworthy acts, which is yet to be resolved before they dubiously went ahead to use the Council's name to make publication for their selfish interest.

Aaron, on behalf of the executive members of the EYC as well as the entire youth body in the Kingdom, called on the general public to disregard the purported publication and the information therein.

Moving forward, he noted that before anybody can bid for a contract, due process must be followed, and as such the said publication should be regarded by the general public as irrelevant.

He therefore use the medium to appreciate Tompolo through his amiable Chief Security Officer, High Chief Kari Ebipade, for his benevolent sacrifices to the Ijaw Nation and Niger Delta as a whole.

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