There have been suggested that 'retired' militants such as Ateke Tom gang boss of the neighbouring Okrika waterfront could try to take advantage of the clean-up...
Most rebel leaders from the 2003-09 phase of the conflict – including Bibopre Ajube 'General Shoot-at-Sight' Victor Ebikabowei Ben 'Boyloaf' Government Tompolo and Ateke Tom – have turned on their old patron Goodluck Jonathan the former President and rallied around Buhari...
Now police say Pepple claims to have masterminded the killing of Soboma George a commander in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and former lieutenant of Ateke Tom in 2009...
Some accused Ateke Tom a militant leader who is close to former First Lady Patience Jonathan of responsibility for the Bonny bomb...
Stories then circulated that Ateke Tom might be in line for a security contract on the United Nations' US$1 billion project to clean up the chronic environmental damage to the Delta...
They include Ateke Tom Dokubo-Asari and 'Pastor' Reuben Wilson and are close to the new PDP Governor of Rivers State Nyseom Wike...
Amaechi went further telling journalists that Patience had used Ateke Tom a veteran militant to lead the attack on the rally...
Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was leader of the now officially defunct Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) and in 2003 acted as the then Rivers State Governor Peter Odili's vote-rigger-in-chief alongside Ateke Tom (AC Vol 45 No 15 Delta damages)...
Officials in Jonathan's government have been making payments of billions of naira to former militants such as Tompolo Asari Ateke Tom and Victor Ben Ebikabowei alias Boyloaf (AC Vol 51 No 25 The war against the amnesty)...
to Ateke Tom; and N560 mn...
Delta-watchers with long memories will recall that the first wave of violence in 2003 began with arms caches being handed over to gang leaders Mujahid Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom to rig elections...
In 2003 the then PDP Governor of Rivers State Peter Odili – who is widely believed to have looted a vast fortune from the state – armed Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom to do his bidding...