Rivers Coalition for Human Rights (RCHR)
28 Pipeline Road, Elelenwo Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Email: riverscoalition705@gmail.com
13 th September, 2024
The Director General
Department of State Services (DSS)
Aso Drive
Abuja – Nigeria
Dear Sir,
ILLEGAL BUNKERING, PIPELINE VANDALISM, TERRORISM, MURDER, KIDNAPPING ACTIVITIES OF ALHAJI BUBA UMARU, MOJI FRANK SAMPSON AND EMEKA KINGSLEY SAMPSON AND JUNIOR PRINCE NSIRIM AT ARADEL REFINERY AT OGBELE COMMUNITY IN AHOADA EAST LGA OF RIVERS STATE.
The Rivers Coalition for Human Rights (RCHR) is a coalition of human rights and civil society groups based in and active in Rivers, working to promote respect for human rights, good governance and democracy. It is our avowed objective to intervene at every opportunity to protect the rights of citizens especially the downtrodden.
This petition is an intervention on behalf of citizens of Oshiugbokor community, Ahoada East LGA of Rivers state, who have become hapless victims in their own land.
It on the strength of this that we wish to draw your attention to the organized criminal activities around the Aradel Holdings (formally Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Limited NDPR) refinery in Ogbele community in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State involving intimidation, harassment, torture, illegal bunkering, pipeline vandalism, terrorism, kidnapping as spearheaded by Alhaji Buba Umaru, Mr Moji Sampson, Emeka Sampson and Junior Prince Nsirim (07031813173, 08054992481, 07031056516,
0915311766, 08030576721), Alhaji Buba Umaru a retired Chief Superintendent of Police has been in the employment
of Aradel for over ten years as community liaison manager wherein he superintends the company’s relationship with the host communities of Ogbele, Oshiugbokor and Ubumeze. With his influence on the communities, he has been able to gain the
company’s confidence to see him as their point man to manage the company’s
relationship with the communities.
In doing this Alhaji Buba Umaru co-opted Mr Moji Sampson and his brother Emeka
Sampson from Oshiugbokor as fronts to conduct illegal bunkering activities by bringing in tankers at late nights to load crude oil and refined products from the refinery unknown to Aradel management.
To consolidate the illegal activities, they engaged the services of a notorious cultist and criminal Mr Junior Prince Nsirim (aka General Junior) who has a gang of over 50 boys armed with dangerous weapons such AK 47 and other assault rifles and operate a camp at Okporowo community where they carry out various criminal activities including assassinations, murder, kidnapping, rapping etc. You will recall that on the 21st of July 2023, Junior and his boys dressed in full Army uniform ambushed Nigerian soldiers and succeeded in killing one of them and carted away their riffles.
He also on 19th June killed Mr Endwell Ahuize a former SUG president of Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic along Ula Upata road Ahoada and also on the 5th of August killed Mr Ibala (Gunboat) from Okoma1 in his house at Ula Ahoada amongst others. (See attached
picture)
Mr Moji Sampson with the funding from Buba Umaru is the one that has been procuring arms for Junior so he is very loyal to Moji and executes any directive from him including killing of any suspected opposition to Buba Umaru and Moji’s activities. They have in the process cowed the communities and committed several murders, tortures to the extent that they control all the benefits due the community from Aradel with the community getting nothing from the operations of Aradel on their land and water front with Alhaji
Buba Umaru as the chief sponsor within Aradel. Those who dare to question about the community entitlements from Aradel are being murdered on the orders of Moji Sampson such as Chief Eze Alali who was shot at Okporowo on his way to his Oshiugbokor village and Mr Clifford Godwin Omu amongst others.
Other community youths who dared to oppose the reign of terror and seizure of their lands and waterfront by Aradel through Moji Sampson and his brother brother Emeka Sampson who poses as the CLO under the guidance of Buba, were taken by Junior to his camp where they were tortured, videod by boys of Junior with sophisticated rifles and warned them never to ask further about anything related to Aradel. (See attached
pictures).
Mr Moji Sampson with the support of Alhaji Buba Umaru for no reason dethroned the paramount ruler of Oshiugbokor Chief Elysian Okpara John and proclaimed himself as the paramount ruler, imposed his brother Mr Emeka Sampson through Alhaji Buba as CLO of the land and Waterfront where Aradel Carrie’s out crude oil loading when they did not have ownership of the land.
On account of his activities, Moji threatened to eliminate Chief Elysian John and his family if he does not vacate the stool and flee the community. Chief Elysian John who ispover 74 years old has since been on the run for the past 3 years and can not go home for fear of his life. He has also brought an action to the Police and the Courts requesting that Moji Sampson should hand over to the community the royalties paid by Aradel to Moji on behalf of the community which he has appropriated to himself for the past five years running into over 200,000,000 million Naira. (See attached court documents). Chief Elysian also reported the threats to his life by Moji Sampson and his brother Emeka to the King of Upata His Royal Majesty Eze Felix Otuwarikpo who can attest to this.
Chief Elysian John tired of running from pillar to post hiding, sought to make peace with Junior who is Buba and Moji’s military wing was lured and given confidence to meet with Junior facilitated by one Emeka Gorden – 08146097661 from Okoma2 community on the 7th of September 2024 but asked to repeat on Sunday 8th and was accompanied by a youth from the community Mr Saviour Ajikwara. Of the three of them that went on the 8th, the intermediary Mr Emeka Gorden escaped while Chief Elysian John and Saviour
Ajikwara were held and killed by Junior and his boys and their remains yet to be
recovered.
Mr Gorden Emeka narrated that while they were at Junior’s place 4 of his boys came and took them into the bush but he may have been spared leading to his escape because he heard them saying he is not from Oshiugbokor village and Chief Elysian John and Saviour were executed on the orders of Moji Sampson and Alhaji Buba for being obstacles to their continued illegal bunkering at the Aradel refinery.
Mr Moji Sampson and his brother Emeke Sampson who have become multi millionaires through illegal bunkering activities with Buba’s collaboration, and boasting that nothing will happen to them as the police and the DSS can not confront Junior on account of high power armaments and boys Junior has in his command. He also boasted that the Police
can always be settled by Buba with money as a retired senior police officer to ensure
their illegal activities are always swept under the carpet. Aradel Holdings whose activities have nurtured this organized criminality, bunkering, murder, assassination etc appears to be helpless as Buba Umaru is said to have
blackmailed the top management and the board with bribes and kick-backs and threats that he will ground their operations if they dare to remove him from his position or the company. He has been in the position for over ten years now.
We therefore wish to appeal to the DG DSS to send a crack team to address this national security issue that is affecting Nigeria’s oil revenue by virtue of the illegal bunkering and creating insecurity in Ahoada East LGA through the establishment of a criminal gang with
over 50 heavily armed boys who have subjugated the communities under their control.
Signed
Derefaka Green
Cordinator
Ndamzhi Amadi
Asst Secretary
Hannah Nikade
Program/Research Officer
Cc:
1) President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
2) National Security Adviser (NSA)
3) Inspector General of Police
4) Chief of Army Staff