July 15, 2010
On the behalf of the Joint Revolutionary Council, we hereby demand the immediate removal of Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello as JTF Commander in the Niger Delta.
Since his appointment as JTF Commander, Sarkin Yarkin Bello has continued to deploy the instruments of his office and the resources at his disposal to create an unbelievable extortionist and profiteering enterprise that thrives by extorting, blackmailing, intimidating and undermining legitimate businesses.
Protection fees are then coerced from legitimate businesses and channeled into private accounts in a manner that questions the capacity of government to secure its people and its resources.
Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello’s racketeering empire in the Niger Delta, now worth more than three billion naira (N3bn) was aided and abetted by key aides of former president Musa Yar’Adua.
Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello with the endorsement of then President Yar’Adua, was responsible was the Gbaramatu genocide where men, women and children were massacred in cold blood. Family houses were razed down, women were raped, abandoned in swamps while young men were tortured and killed by blood thirsty soldiers of Northern extraction.
The attack on Gbaramatu Community was a culmination of a series of machinations driven by Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello to extort monies from owners of vessels in the guise of ‘protection fees’.
In the past two years, we have continued to call for a probe of Sarkin Yarkin Bello but our demands have fallen on deaf ears. The recent confiscation of a vessel belong to Tim Afrique Services in spite of a court order and the demand the Tim Afrique must pay fifty million naira is a clear indicator of Sarkin Yarkin Bello is and what he represents, the decay that is the Nigerian State.
Not too long a JTF officer Colonel Victor Ezugwu was reported for involvement in Oil Bunkering and nothing was done about it. Is illegal bunkering a part of their mandate in the Niger Delta?
If Sarkin Yarkin Bello is not removed immediately, we would have no choice but to visit his family with the treatment that he gave to the women and children of Gbaramatu. No one has the monopoly of murderous violence.
We have spoken.
Cynthia Whyte
Spokesperson, Joint Revolutionary Council
Comprising of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, The Reformed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force and the Martyrs Brigade
Since his appointment as JTF Commander, Sarkin Yarkin Bello has continued to deploy the instruments of his office and the resources at his disposal to create an unbelievable extortionist and profiteering enterprise that thrives by extorting, blackmailing, intimidating and undermining legitimate businesses.
Protection fees are then coerced from legitimate businesses and channeled into private accounts in a manner that questions the capacity of government to secure its people and its resources.
Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello’s racketeering empire in the Niger Delta, now worth more than three billion naira (N3bn) was aided and abetted by key aides of former president Musa Yar’Adua.
Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello with the endorsement of then President Yar’Adua, was responsible was the Gbaramatu genocide where men, women and children were massacred in cold blood. Family houses were razed down, women were raped, abandoned in swamps while young men were tortured and killed by blood thirsty soldiers of Northern extraction.
The attack on Gbaramatu Community was a culmination of a series of machinations driven by Major General Sarkin Yarkin Bello to extort monies from owners of vessels in the guise of ‘protection fees’.
In the past two years, we have continued to call for a probe of Sarkin Yarkin Bello but our demands have fallen on deaf ears. The recent confiscation of a vessel belong to Tim Afrique Services in spite of a court order and the demand the Tim Afrique must pay fifty million naira is a clear indicator of Sarkin Yarkin Bello is and what he represents, the decay that is the Nigerian State.
Not too long a JTF officer Colonel Victor Ezugwu was reported for involvement in Oil Bunkering and nothing was done about it. Is illegal bunkering a part of their mandate in the Niger Delta?
If Sarkin Yarkin Bello is not removed immediately, we would have no choice but to visit his family with the treatment that he gave to the women and children of Gbaramatu. No one has the monopoly of murderous violence.
We have spoken.
Cynthia Whyte
Spokesperson, Joint Revolutionary Council
Comprising of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, The Reformed Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force and the Martyrs Brigade
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