Dr. Blessing Agbomhere, the South South Zonal Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has written to the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, describing the founder of Tantita Security Services Limited, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, as a patriot and law-abiding citizen.
In the letter, Agbomhere urged the EFCC boss to delete Ekpemupolo’s name from its X handle due to alleged naira abuse.
According to a source close to the Commission who revealed the news under condition of anonymity in Abuja, Agbomhere made his appeal in a letter.
Agbomhere, the Principal Partner of Blessing Agbomhere & Partners, described the invitation to Tompolo as unwarranted, stating that the individual in question has committed no known criminal offence.
In response, Agbomhere, Tompolo’s lawyer, reportedly wrote a letter demanding the EFCC to rescind the invitation letter and erase his name from their X account.
Agbomhere, who insisted that there was no evidence to show that Tompolo stepped on the Naira notes as alleged but was instead seen in the video waving at the individual spraying him with the notes to stop, claimed that the EFCC’s invitation to Tompolo was the result of baseless allegations made by social media warriors known for online bullying and cyberstalking who want to pit the EFCC against Tompolo.
The letter partly reads, “As we speak, Tompolo is the reason why the Nigerian economy is not comatose; he has and continues to mobilise his company vigorously in protection of Nigeria’s critical assets,, such as its oil pipelines, which were before now vandalised at will.
“In fact, we are appealing to the EFCC to withdraw the invitation and pull down all ancillary comments on the matter posted on all its social media accounts against a law-abiding citizen.
“Unarguably, High Chief Oweizidei Thomas Ekpemupolo is a law-abiding citizen of Nigeria, who knows and obeys the law and who will not do anything to breach the law.
“High Chief Tompolo is a true patriot, who is doing everything to protect the economic wealth and critical national assets of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Niger Delta, and will not do anything to dishonour the same system he is protecting even at the cost of his private peace and safety.
“As the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission works tirelessly to protect our economic wealth, national image and the values of national integrity, it should not succumb to the emotions and blackmail of social media bandits who only find joy in cyberbullying, cyberstalking and bad-mouthing our institutions.
“Respectfully, we solicit that you use your good office to look into the allegation, wave it off as a foul cry of idle minds who derive pleasure from pulling down those who are working for the good of our nation, while you reconsider this with a view to pulling the statement against our client down from the official X handle of the Commission.
“Even as we make this passionate appeal to you, on behalf of Chief Tompolo, we want, however, to commend your sense of duty and uncompromising stand you have taken in the advocacy and war against Naira abuse, which has resulted in the conviction of highly placed Nigerians who act deliberately in breach of the law.”
