Studying and understanding Tompolo, Otuaro and borders

Even without straining one’s productive energies in the deliberate creation of a noise equivalent in decibel to two irons beaten to awaken preternaturally deaf iguanas and salvage them from a waiting danger on the shoreline which may mark their obituary, it is known to all that the pipeline surveillance contract and the Amnesty Programme are currently liberated from turbulence and undulations as a product of the border-management expertise of Tompolo and Otuaro, who have roots deeply buried in border studies, particularly the social construction of borders that see and designate borders as a site for meaningful interaction and integration, where opportunities for self-actualisation and social belonging are fully explored without encumbrances thrown up by border exclusivity.

In carrying guns they were all driven by their own search for self-actualisation, identity negotiation and social belonging because they were systematically shut out by the Nigerian Federal Government and the multinational oil companies in the management of the symbolic borders.

Both in the pipeline surveillance contract and the Amnesty Programme, individuals hitherto denied opportunities have been given the window for self-actualisation, identity negotiation, identity construction and social belonging.