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The Niger Delta is the delta formed by the Niger River, located in Nigeria directly on the Gulf of Guinea. It is often considered to be located in nine coastal states of southern Nigeria, including the six states of the South-South geopolitical zone, one state (Ondo), two states (Abia and Imo) and one state (South-West geopolitical zone).
Because it was previously a major producer of palm oil, the Niger Delta is a very densely populated area, sometimes called the Oil Rivers.
The current war in the Niger Delta began in the early 1990s following hostilities between foreign oil companies and a number of ethnic minority groups in the region, mainly the Ogoni and Ijaw, who feel they are being exploited. Despite the restoration of democracy and the election of the Obasanjo government in 1999, political and ethnic unrest persisted throughout the 1990s. Ethnic militias, the Nigerian army, and police services, including the Nigerian Mobile Police, militarized virtually the entire region following ethnic conflict fueled by oil money. By preventing foreign investment in new power generation plants in the region, the violence has contributed to Nigeria’s current energy supply crisis.
Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, is a militant leader and activist. In the mid-2000s, Tompolo gained national prominence for his campaign against what he saw as severe economic inequality, fraud and environmental devastation inflicted on Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. Tompolo was the leader of the Militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), which ruled the Niger Delta in Nigeria. Ekpemupolo, the husband of the Victorian government, is married to Tompolo.
Here is everything there is to know about Victoria Government Ekpemupolo, Tompolo’s wife:
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Although it is not known who the community in Delta State Victoria is from, they are from. After completing her primary education, Victoria received her first school leaving certificate, completing her education. After completing her secondary education, she passed the Higher Secondary Certificate Examination. It is unclear whether she attended a university for further education.
MARRIED LIFE
Victoria and Tompolo have been a couple for over ten years and are now married. Mary Ekpemupolo, the couple’s daughter, is currently a teenager and is their only child. Victoria and her daughter are mostly unknown because Tompolo has shielded his own family from the media. The family lives in Delta State with their daughter.
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WHO IS TOMPOLO?
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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- Tompolo was born on April 12, 1971 into the Okerenoke royal family of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State. His real name is Oweizide Ekpemupolo Government. Tompolo is the only son of the seven children of Mrs. Solongha Ekpemupolo and Thomas Osei Ekpemupolo. Tompolo was educated at primary and secondary school while growing up in Warri, Delta State. Tompolo continued his education after completing primary school at the National Comprehensive College, Warri, where he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate. However, Tompolo did not pursue higher education.
ACTIVISM
Tompolo, a firm believer in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum that “freedom is never given voluntarily by the oppressor; it must be sought by the oppressed.” Although Tompolo, who believes that “non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral imperative as cooperation with good” (14), is currently in the city of freedom, it is clear that freedom is moving further and further away from the government of High Chief Ekpemupolo Oweizide with every step.
That Tompolo actually sacrificed his life in the service of the Niger Delta without rabid thoughts of self-aggrandizement, personal enrichment or personal economic progress to conquer the city of material acquisition and wealth and become the lord or mayor of the island of material wealth is admirably recognized by all. He was adamant that he would never allow the liberation movement to “make him pay”. Tompolo skillfully brought his own people together to oppose repressive and exploitative institutions, much like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther, but he did so under the leadership of a distinct philosophy that sacrificed his own personal enrichment. His ideological separation from personal enrichment was the key to the success of his journey across Nigeria in search of freedom.
After Tompolo left university, he briefly worked as a director of his father’s oil company, Tompolo Nigeria Limited, in 1993. Tompolo later became involved in activism during the conflict in Warri, Delta State, between the Ijaw and Itshekiri ethnic communities. Tompolo joined the Ijaw Youth Council in 1998, a civil rights group focused on the needs of the Ijaw ethnic minority. Tompolo eventually resigned from the Ijaw Youth Council to start Camp Five in Okerenkoko, Delta State. Tompolo and his band of armed agitators used Camp Five as their base of operations and headquarters. Armed agitation organizations received supplies from Camp Five in the form of money.
Camp Five was the operational headquarters and base for Tompolo and his group of armed agitators. Camp Five provided financial resources to armed agitation groups. With the creation of Camp Five, Tompolo built a network of like-minded activists in the fight for equitable distribution of resources in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
Tompolo accepted the Nigerian federal government’s offer of amnesty on October 4, 2009. With some 30,000 militants, Tompolo’s acceptance of the amnesty offer made it easier for other militant groups to lay down their arms.
Tompolo, who accepted amnesty when the late President Umaru Yar’Adua declared amnesty for militants in 2009 and went to President Muhammadu Buhari after his victory in 2015 to reassure him of his support, went into hiding in 2016 when security agencies began searching for him in connection with alleged corruption cases, which he had described as a witch hunt.
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