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🏹A Former Warlord Buys American Drones to Hunt for Oil Thieves in Nigeria 🏹 (👆 and it's not the beginning of a funny joke) 🌐 While in northern Nigeria US drones are looking for terrorists(and gathering intelligence in the Sahel), a private security company plans to draw on US experience with unmanned vehicles to track down oil thieves in the Niger Delta. 🚓 The future purchaser of US drones is Tantita Security Services allegedly owned by a former anti-government insurgent and once Nigeria’s most wanted criminal Ekpumupolo (aka Tompolo). His quasi-army turned into a PMC-like security firm when the government, in the early 2010s, offered the former militants amnesty and contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for switching sides and guarding oil assets. 💸 Now the former leader of the struggle against the exploitation of the Niger Delta offers infrastructure protection to half of Nigeria’s oil players — from the state-owned NNPC to the rising local company Seplat to the global giant Chevron—continuing to make money from oil theft, only in a different way. 🚙 For Tompolo, American surveillance drones will be mere toys: according to journalists, since 2012 in his collection he has already had at least 6 armed torpedo boats and one 1700-ton support shop, acquired from the Norwegian military. All to deliver on security contracts. ➡️ Follow to stay informed - @devilsbelow