The Truth Must Be Told Even If It Offends King__

By Esther David

OPEN LETTER TO THE NIGER DELTA AND THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC

TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN — EVEN IF IT OFFENDS KINGS

From: Concerned Niger Delta Network For Progress

Date: [27/7/2025]

INTRODUCTION: WHEN SILENCE IS TREASON

It has come to our attention with boiling fury and raw disgust that some self-appointed defenders of failure, misguided hustlers and backdoor contractors masquerading as Niger Delta “opinion leaders” have issued foolish warnings that no one should talk about the Olu of Warri or his pipeline surveillance proxy companies.

To those cowardly loudspeakers and bootlickers building a shrine of immunity around a public contractor cloaked in royalty, hear us now:

We will talk. We will name names. And we will not be silenced.

You don’t get to steal in silence. You don’t get to fail publicly and hide behind a crown. When your royal name is tied to billions from Nigeria’s oil wealth and when that money is doing nothing visible, you become accountable to the people. Not a god. Not untouchable. Not immune.

FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS THE PROPAGANDISTS CAN’T ANSWER

Since you fear the truth, let us throw it in your face:

Where is the performance record of PINL (Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited)?

What pipeline corridor under their care has been saved from oil theft?

Why are bunkering hotspots still active under Ocean Marine’s surveillance zones, particularly in Itsekiri territory?

Where is their field structure, arrest data, technical footprint or community engagement strategy?

How many youths from Ijaw, Urhobo, Isoko, Anioma, even ordinary Itsekiris have PINL and Ocean Marine employed?

Where is the published payroll? Where are the training schemes? Where is the job record?

You won’t answer. Because there is no answer. You won’t publish your facts because your companies have done nothing but collect billions and protect bunkers.

But you have the audacity to attack does asking this sensitive questions, we have just one company that has hired thousands, busted illegal refining sites, arrested economic saboteurs and restored security to oil corridors?

You attack the only company because its success exposes your failure.

STOP HIDING BEHIND THE CROWN: THE OLU IS NOW A CONTRACTOR

Let’s make this very clear:
The moment the name of the Olu of Warri became tied to pipeline surveillance contracts through PINL and Ocean Marine, he ceased to be “only a king.”
He is now a contractor. A public vendor. A federal recipient of billions.

And therefore, he is not beyond question.
He is not beyond criticism.
He is not immune from performance audits.

You can’t use ethnicity to shield inefficiency.
You can’t use the crown to cover up failure.
You can’t keep silencing questions with the slogan: “don’t insult the Olu.”

No throne should be built on stolen silence.

THE REAL SABOTEURS OF THE NIGER DELTA

It is not the only company that is the threat to Niger Delta stability, it is Ocean Marine and PINL, companies whose only legacy is collecting without delivering, whose only strategy is to weaponize tribal sentiments to protect their political contracts.

While the only company is out there cleaning the creeks, securing pipelines, and building employment structures, they’re in hotel lobbies making noise, paying media agents and planting division.

Who are the real enemies of the region?

Who are the real oil thieves?

TO THE YOUTHS OF THE NIGER DELTA — OPEN YOUR EYES!

This is a call to conscience, especially to the Urhobo, Ijaw, Isoko, Anioma and even Itsekiri youths:

Why are you silent when billions are moving with no trace of employment or community impact?

Why are you fighting your own liberators while shielding the very companies that have excluded and impoverished you?

Why not marching to the gates of Ocean Marine and PINL demanding your due?

Wake up. You are being played.

Ethnic blackmail is being used to protect elite contracts.
The real looters are covering their failures with tribal garments, while keeping your communities in darkness.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT

Let it be known:

PINL is hiding.

Ocean Marine is collecting.

The Olu’s name is being used to protect oil thieves.

This generation of the Niger Delta will no longer bow to ethnic deceit, royal silence or contractor propaganda.

Signed:

Comr, Frederic Onorode
(Chairman)

Godstime Ifeanyi
(Secretary)

Concerned Delta Network For Progress

Cc:

Ijaw Youth Council (IYC)