Vanguard
19 March 2011
By Emma Amaize
WITH the twin detention and ongoing trials of Henry Okah in South Africa and his brother, Charles Okah in Nigeria and the earlier orchestrated delisting from the Movement from the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, of its top leaders like Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, Ateke Tom, “General” Boyloaf, Shoot At Sight and others, the general belief was that the militant group had become a toothless bulldog.
WITH the twin detention and ongoing trials of Henry Okah in South Africa and his brother, Charles Okah in Nigeria and the earlier orchestrated delisting from the Movement from the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, of its top leaders like Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, Ateke Tom, “General” Boyloaf, Shoot At Sight and others, the general belief was that the militant group had become a toothless bulldog.
Those who still harboured some doubt, even after the outburst of Boyloaf that the militant group had become lifeless had a change of mind when security agents effectively cloned MEND’s electronic mail address, which is the group’s most powerful communication channel, and dished out counter-messages in the name of its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo.
To say that MEND was taken aback by the successful cloning was an understatement. It was destabilized and humbled, in December, last year.
In reality, MEND lost its voice and could no longer interface the way it used to. It managed to wriggle out of the saga a month later, precisely, January 31, with a new communication channel. But it still did not find its footing until on March 13, nearly two and half months later, when it announced through its new communication channel that would commence simultaneous bomb blasts and attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta and other strategic locations in Abuja and Lagos states of Nigeria
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