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Officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested one Kennedy Tabukoi, for allegedly leading an unregistered Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Niger Delta Development Initiative (NDDI), to reportedly blackmail certain high profile officials of government.
Blueprint Weekend sources indicate that Tabukoi was arrested on Thursday in Abuja.
This is as security sources disclosed that the embattled NGO leader resorts to organising other unsuspecting groups to participate in protest marches against the government officials
when such officials fail to meet Tabukoi’s demands.
According to a security source, who did not what his name in print, “One of such protest marches held Thursday morning at the National Assembly gate, where Tabukoi led several groups to protest against what he claimed were moves by the federal lawmakers to stall a probe of the petroleum sector.”
The sources noted that, “Unknown to Tabukoi, security operatives had been on his trail after certain officials of government reported the several attempts he made to blackmail them into parting with huge sums of money and contracts, “or risk being embarrassed.”
Speaking further the source said, “That man Tabukoi had been boasting to friends and members of his syndicate that as a Niger Deltan activist he would use his NGO to deal with any government official who didn’t do his bidding.
“Unknown to him, it was the same people he had been intimidating with claims of how much he would make from top government officials in Abuja that tipped off the DSS that he had no NGO, and that he was merely using impersonation to blackmail such government officials.”
The source added, “When we invited Tabukoi, he didn’t waste time in corroborating the claims of his so-called friends. He said he was aware that several Niger Deltans made money from activism, which is the reason he was in the process of raising money to register his own NGO.”
