Foremost ex-militant leader, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo also known as  Tompolo has again written to President Muhammadu Buhari expressing concern over the continued arrest and alleged intimidation of his family members and close associates by combined team of the personnel of the Nigerian Military, Department of State Security and the Nigerian Police.

According to Tompolo, though this may be his last open letter to President Mohammadu Buhari, the arrest of his family members and associates, which he described as “unwarranted and wicked’ is more worrisome due to the tactics adopted with alleged uniformed associates of Ayiri Emami and Michael Johnny going from door to door with a long list of names and addresses.

High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, in the letter made available to Leadership Weekend via email in Yenagoa, stated that “The latest victims of this unwarranted, misdirected and wicked act are Hon. Simeon Bebenimibo, a member of the Delta State Waterway and Land Security Committee and a driver of one of my aides, Mr Ebipade Kari, who was on an errand with a little baby. The baby was thrown away from the vehicle, as the driver was beaten to pulp by your men, as he was asked the whereabouts of his boss. That was not all, the military men stormed the house of one of my younger brothers, and harassed his pregnant wife with guns pointed at her.

“ This has led to complications because of the closeness to her time of delivery. The duo, who were arrested, are presently in the custody of the Nigerian Army, Effurun. Before this incident, the Navy went to the apartment of another of my aide, and picked up his heavily pregnant wife as he was out of town, and kept her for 24 hours in the Navy base before releasing her. The mode of operation is that the military command usually decorates associates of Ayiri Emami and Michael Johnny with military uniforms and they go from door to door with a long list of names and addresses of my family members and associates with the intention of arresting them.”