Stop inflammatory statement against Tompolo, Egbesu priest warns

EGBESU Priest, has called on the immediate past President of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates and Leaders, Edema Oritsetimeyin, to be careful of the inflammatory comments he is making against Tompolo over the surveillance contract.

This came as two groups in Edo State, gave their support and commended the federal government for giving the pipelines surveillance contract to Tompolo.

The priest gave the warning in Warri via a statement, in response to a recent newspaper publication credited to Oritsetimeyin on the surveillance contract.

It says "Let me react to your misleading, demeaning and misconstrued sponsored reports trending in some national dailies.

"Oritsetimeyin statements are similar to that of someone who had wandered very far from home, exhibiting traits of frustration, who should be called to order for unscrupulous attempt to ignite an ethnic crisis.

"First and foremost, inform your sender that he who comes to equity must come with clean hands, the reports contained in the national dailies are cheap, petty and tantamount to misinform and divert public attention. 

"For the records, there is no public record of Tompolo issuing any statement linking the Olu of Warri to any pipeline surveillance job, why then the baseless attempt to drag Tompolo’s name into unnecessary quarrel."

He (Egbesu Priest) called on all companies handling this surveillance job to emulate the kind gesture of Tompolo and extend their hands to youths, women and leaders of Niger Delta .