A HARVEST FROM BETRAYALS

About the Book

It was a welcome sight as Exploit Oil, an oil prospecting company, came to Olobiri, an oil-rich community. Good jobs, good roads, and other amenities were promised by the oil companies and the government until there was an oil spillage destroying agricultural and aquatic life in the host communities and other villages. The general manager and Chief Peredou colluded to buy the youth over when they saw that they were having opposition from an antienvironmental body, PFAEP. Enough money had been given to the greedy Chief, who saw his continuous stay in office as a means of getting more money and his removal as exposing his shady deals. As a result, he recruited a militia, equipping them with sophisticated weapons, money, and charms, and used them to reinstall himself and also to rig elections to install his friend Chief Inemo as a local government chairman. When they had been sworn in, Chief Inemo and Chief Peredou did not want to fulfill their pre-election promises to the youth and looked for a way of eliminating them.

About the Author

Akimua Timitimi was born in Kaiama in Kolokuma Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa State in Nigeria. He attended Federal Government College–Port Harcourt and won academic prizes in the course of his studies. He had a stint at Aladumo Educational Center, Port Harcourt, before studying a course in computer science and later electrical engineering, both at the University of Port Harcourt, the City and Guilds of London Institute, and Southland University, California, USA, where he has a master’s degree. After his studies, he worked at Port Harcourt as a branch manager / engineer with Solar Power International Products Limited, engineer / safety officer with El-Lafraa Nigerian Limited, and First Aluminum Plc, Port Harcourt. He wrote this and other books while he was a computer science student. He was inspired by Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Rivers State branch’s literary workshops and seminars. He has published many poems, a cartoon series (Papa and Pikin), and short stories in daily newspapers, such as Sunray and the Nigerian Tide. A very good sportsman (athletics and martial arts), he did competitive sports in school and the Rivers State Sports Council and won laurels.