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Bayelsa Governor Arrested


Mr Alamieyeseigha says his prosecution is political
A Nigerian state governor who was charged with money laundering in the UK has been impeached and arrested in his oil-rich home state of Bayelsa.
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was detained by police after losing the immunity from prosecution that he enjoyed in office.

He has always said he is innocent of charges that he laundered £1.8m ($3.2m) found in cash and bank accounts.

As Nigeria battles to shed a reputation for corruption, this is the first time a governor has been impeached.

The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in the state capital, Yenagoa, says there is a heavy security presence on the streets of the city.

The governor is being held at the police headquarters, he says.

Everyone wants him

EFCC's Osita Nwajah


Nigeria's runaway governor

Seventeen out of the state assembly's 24 members voted in favour of impeachment.

Before the vote, the speaker said the governor had not responded in anyway to the notice of his impeachment made more than two weeks ago.

On the run

"The cover of immunity has been taken away from him by the impeachment. We are going to move in immediately and arrest him," Osita Nwajah, spokesman for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told AFP.

"The man has several cases against him. Everyone wants him," he said.



Mr Alamieyeseigha is facing allegations of fraud by a special anti-corruption court sitting in the northern city of Kaduna.

He is also on the run from the UK authorities after he jumped bail last month in London, where he has been charged with money laundering.

Nigerian officials said Mr Alamieyeseigha left Britain disguised in women's clothing, although he has denied this.

Last week, he was suspended from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Mr Alamieyeseigha has told the BBC that the $3.2m found in London does not belong to him.

He said the charges against him were politically motivated.

President Olusegun Obasanjo set up the EFCC anti-corruption body in order to fight fraud in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world.

But his critics say the anti-corruption drive is bring used to eliminate political rivals.

Mr Alamieyeseigha is seen as being close to Vice-President Atiku Abubakar - who is vying with Mr Obasanjo for control of the PDP.

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[ December 10, 2005, 08:51 PM: Message edited by: bababoyz ]

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Try the bastard and if found guilty send him to jail; that ought to send a message to other government rogues.

The problem with African and Nigerian government officials is that they do not give a damn about ordinary people, they only care about themselves; it is only when they are in deep "Sht" that they embrace them for support. Barstards with no soul.

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The thief does not belong in the kangaroo courts of the kai-kai country. All his stolen goodies, money and all should be seized immediately then his ass immediately bundled on the next flight out of the country to Britain for onward twenty years imprisonment with hard labor!

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We will be pleased to host him in the secure wing of Wandsworth Prison - right next to the empty cell reserved for Orji Kalu.

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Good talk all around. No one has however shown enough charity and courage of commending the head of the government who has shown some distinction of being the first head of government in Nigeria to publicly back the prosecution of a corrupt governor(in control of billions in bribe-money) and actually go as far as helping in his removal from office. Where are the good people of BNW?. Where is Mebiafran when i need him most?

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Where is Mebiafran when i need him most? - addy
lololol! I feel you ojareooooooo!! I'm right with you, my good friend, still laughing. From my earlier post above you can feel safe to deduce that a tacit or tentative support was given though I’ll hold my breathe until the OLE governor is bundled back to serve real time and not the tafa oleshi balogun janta manta drama.

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No one has however shown enough charity and courage of commending the head of the government who has shown some distinction of being the first head of government in Nigeria to publicly back the prosecution of a corrupt governor - Addy
King Kong shall never taste of my commendation until he rises above his overly generous application of selective justice. If he wants to enjoy any measure of commendation he should go closer to the genesis of government criminality by arresting major thieves like IBB whose continued freedom immediately rubbishes any anti-corruption drive King Kong may devise around his dining table of iniquity.

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As much as I applaud this new found ball by Obansanjo and his EFCC gang. However we must not lose the sight here that, Obasanjo always develop balls when dealing with southerners and play amernesia when it comes to the North. Selective prosecution can never be good justice. My gripe with Alamieyeseigha is that he is a sisi, He shouldn't have jump bail, he should have taken it like a man. He choose to lay with dogs, so he should not complain about flies. Having said that Dariye Plateau Jumped bail before him, why is he been the first to be prosecuted. make the Justice equitable otherwise it will not be just. I am not defending Bayelsa Gov.

[ December 10, 2005, 12:12 AM: Message edited by: Biafra ]

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The Yoroba babboon named Obasanjo is pursuing a personal vendetta against Atiku. It is in that light that the Alams impeachment must be seen.
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They are closing on Dariye as we speak and before dawn, he shall be in the net. You can take that to the bank.

The thieving governors can jump bail and run, but they cannot hide. It is a new dawn and the days are numbered for all the looters of our treasury. The days of business as usual syndrome is gone and gone forever.

OBJ has finally broke the yoke of the untouchables.

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Let obasanjo arrest himself first and all his cabinet past and present. They are all big thieves.
It is obasanjo and his godfathers and boys that are the real untouchables.
For obasanjo to break the yoke of the untouchables he would have to arrest IBB, tony aneni, etc and finaly himself.

Small time wetin we go hear na " he obj was so good lets give him a 3rd term. only he can continue to save nigeria with his anti corruption"
Thats what its coming to, Bababoys, i am sure you are preparing the ground to bring us that news.

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Small time wetin we go hear na " he obj was so good lets give him a 3rd term. only he can continue to save nigeria with his anti corruption" - Ochiwar
That is BifraNigeria for you. The yoroba General and his soft targets. Abacha was hailed for setting up the failed bank tribunal which brought a lot of his political oponents to justice, including Onwuka Kalu. This fight against economic and financial crimes earned Abacha a lot of praise especially from his famous advisers like Prof Sam Aluko. Other people were also arrested, tried and jailed for treason like Olu obasanjo, Shehu Yaradua e.t.c. people like olu Falae were arrested for trying to intimidate the president and commander in chief by making and throwing bombs.

I'm laughing at Obasanjo and the yorobas. This is how a yoroba writer started his piece in today's vanguard in a similar word to bababoyz:

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PLATEAU State is another to watch and pay close attention following what has been achieved IN Bayelsa by the federal forces.
see Dariye, Nyame: The fire next time
By Bolade Omonijo
Posted to the Web: Saturday, December 10, 2005

Federal forces huh?

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“The whole process violated the laid-down rules of impeaching a government, it was obvious the Federal Government had a hand in what happened. They had members of the House kidnapped and made to sign an impeachment notice; soldiers were brought in to further box the legislators and made them carry out the agenda of the government.
“The panel that was sworn in had two members of the PDP, which was wrong. And another thing, the governor was never really invited to defend himself. Another thing, this jumping bail is not an impeachable offence, because an impeachable offence is what you do as a governor, and jumping bail is not one of them.

So, when you look at it, the whole process was violated. It was a simple show of physical might by the federal government, which in order to achieve its objective smashed the Constitution of the country.
“What we see right now is a dictatorship of one man, and not the rule of law.

Prof Itse Sagay, Constitutional Lawyer "It’s dictatorship at play"

On a personal note, Alams should go to hell, his new tummy and all. He was the one that has been baosting how he fixed more than 95% of bayelsa vote for baba Iyabo. What goes around comes around, if you ride the tiger you may just end up being tucked inside its tummy.

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In as much I would agree with many on this board and people around the world that the action of the Bayelsa State governor who was indicted by a truly court of law, that operates based on rule of law was WRONG, disgraceful and should be condemned in the strongest of terms by all lovers of truth and justice, I nonetheless find it silly when Addy tried to exenorate Obasanjo and co at the Federal level. And to even suggest, no matter how remotely, that Nigerians should be applauding the President for what we can all see is selective justice and pre-planned vendetta against the President's opponents is to say the least an insult.

That said, I am very pleased that some Igbos (abi na 'Biafrans') who often let their emotions becloud their sense of reasoning are begining to see what I saw when I and my good friend, Markus, firmly defended Orji Kalu's right of presumed innocent until pronounced otherwise BY A COURT OF LAW.

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If he wants to enjoy any measure of commendation he should go closer to the genesis of government criminality by arresting major thieves like IBB whose continued freedom immediately rubbishes any anti-corruption drive King Kong may devise around his dining table of iniquity.---Igboblood.
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Igboblood:
Poor Igboblood.
Good that you and your fellow journeymen/women are beginning to remove your google to see beyond your nostrils.
So it has finally dawned on you and your fellow zomblies that Nwa Aro and my good friend, Markus, were afteral not stupid when we told you guys at the Orji Kalu thread that Obasanjo’s so-called anti-corruption crusade is just an attempt to silence his critics and those like Orji Kalu from the south who will surely become a stumbling block to the President’s third term ambition come 2007?

When will you guys learn to first read, secondly digest, and thereafter praise or condemn as the case may be, instead of often puting the carte before the horse by firstly writing in anger and in a bandwagon mentality then thereafter you start thinking as is often the case?

The other time it was you and your blind followers jumping on Nwa Aro (even Biafra whom I had so much resect for even went as low as calling me silly names) simply because I asked you guys to get both side of the story before blindly lyching Mr. Jude Akabuilo. Now the world know, after hearing from Mr. Akabuilo that you guys were DEAD wrong while Nwa Aro whom you cyber mob wanted to lynch for simply telling you guys to administer caution was RIGHT!
Amazingly, apart from my good brother MeBiafran who has owned up to his folly, none of you COWARDS has been man enough to publicly admit that you goofed ever since Mr. Akabuilo debunked all the lies you and your gang told against him.

So just as it was in the case of Mr. Akabuilo, I bet you guys will be put to shame for all the wicked lies and falsehood you and your gang have written on this board about Orji Kalu when he finally come to that court you want him to appear.
I hope though that it wont be in Obasanjo's kangaroo court nor in that of the lost souls who call themselves 'Biafrans' that Orji Kalu's trial will be held.

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As much as I applaud this new found ball by Obansanjo and his EFCC gang. However we must not lose the sight here that, Obasanjo always develop balls when dealing with southerners and play amernesia when it comes to the North. Selective prosecution can never be good justice…Having said that Dariye Plateau Jumped bail before him, why is he been the first to be prosecuted. make the Justice equitable otherwise it will not be just.---Biafra.
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Biafra:
Good talk!
But wait a minute, is there anything new in the above statement?

Below is for the record what Nwa Aro wrote at the Orji Kalu thread regarding Obasanjo’s selective amnesia, and why his self-glorifying anti-corruption campaign should be treated with caution and comtempt:

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- For instance, why would any Igbo expect Nwa Aro to continue condemning Orji Kalu when the Yorubas are either brousing over Obasanjo's documented corrupt and dictatorial activities? To wit, the same Yorubas who earlier joined the narrow-minded Igbos on BNW to "judge" and convict Orji Kalu were the same people who often rise in defence of any Yoruba whenever he/she comes under attack on this board.

-Why should Nwa Aro of all people be the one to "expose" Orji Kalu and his "sins" to his future opponents like Bababgida, when documented and facts known all over the world shows that Babangida, the "evil genuis" has stolen more money as former Nigerian Head of State than any other past or future Nigerian Head of State has done or will ever do?
Is it not same Obasanjo who want us to now believe that Orji Kalu is "corrupt" that shamelessly asked Nigerians to produce what he called "evidence" before he could put Babangida on trial? What sort of double standard is that?
Yet, my Igbo hollier-than-thous friends on BNW want Nwa Aro to throw the first stone at Orji Kalu just to wet their appetite for blood.

- Why should any reasonable Igbo expect Nwa Aro of all people to be the one to convict Orji Kalu, when no court of law in Nigeria or in any part of the world has formally charged or covicted him of any crime?

- Why should I conscienciously do so when I know deep down in my heart (and those calling for Orji Kalu's head knows or should know same) that Orji Kalu's future opponents, begining from Babangida, to Atiku, right down to Marwa and Obasanjo are more evil and corrupt than a million Orji Kalus put together?

Apart from the de-tribalised Gani Fawehimis, where have we seen or read the Yorubas or the notherners condemn the afore-mentioned quartet heartelessly and blindly as the narrow-minded idling Igbos on BNW do?—Nwa Aro.
posted November 06, 2005 10:10 AMNovember 06, 2005 10:10 AM
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It will surely take a century for some folks on this board who obviously did not have the “privilege” (apologies Adaora) to know the dramatis personas nor did actively partake in Nigerian murcky politics (neither at the local nor at the Federal level) to understand how Nigerian mago-mago politics functions.

We can now understand why Igboblood and co find comfort in politics of character assasination and isolation. Thank God your tribe is in the minority amongst the Igbo race.

I will be back when next I do have time and when necessary to remind you guys that: "I TOLD YOU SO."

Addy:
Lest I forget, though belatedly, you are welcome back my good friend.
Just as I opined at the thread started by MeBiafran, though we have had our brushes and still have on this thread, there's no doubt that its your type of Nigerian that still makes this board worth visiting.
Remain blessed fela.

Here is wishing everyone a pleasnt Xmas and a healthy, prosperous New Year!!!

See you in 2006.

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[Wink] Nwa Aro,

Good to have you back. I figured you’d miss me at some point. I’m sure your absence was informed by the burning need to take a breather from the assault you received a while ago. Unfortunately the break you took was not long enough or effective enough because you have returned spewing the same amount of rubbish as before.


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So it has finally dawned on you and your fellow zomblies that Nwa Aro and my good friend, Markus, were afteral not stupid when we told you guys at the Orji Kalu thread that Obasanjo’s so-called anti-corruption crusade is just an attempt to silence his critics and those like Orji Kalu from the south who will surely become a stumbling block to the President’s third term ambition come 2007? - Nwa Aro
You didn’t have to tell us anything mate. It was, is + always will be clear to all that King Kong is being selective in his application of justice. The fact however remains that his sense of justice is just that - SELECTIVE. Alams has received zero sympathy from me because he is guilty. Whether King Kong also pursues the other criminals that abound in your country with as much vigour or not, Alams is guilty + so is not deserving of sympathy.


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The other time it was you and your blind followers jumping on Nwa Aro (even Biafra whom I had so much resect for even went as low as calling me silly names) simply because I asked you guys to get both side of the story before blindly lyching Mr. Jude Akabuilo. - Nwa Aro
I made NO contribution to the thread on Mr. Akabuilo – NONE. Are you now not the one blindly ‘lynching’ me before getting both sides of the story?


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Why should any reasonable Igbo expect Nwa Aro of all people to be the one to convict Orji Kalu, when no court of law in Nigeria or in any part of the world has formally charged or covicted him of any crime? - Nwa Aro
Really? Is that the parameter you have employed? Fine. Now see how this contrasts with your next statement:


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Why should I conscienciously do so when I know deep down in my heart (and those calling for Orji Kalu's head knows or should know same) that Orji Kalu's future opponents, begining from Babangida, to Atiku, right down to Marwa and Obasanjo are more evil and corrupt than a million Orji Kalus put together?- Nwa Aro
Nwanne, how do you know they are more evil + corrupt than Kalu? No court of law in Nigeria or in any part of the world has formally charged or convicted them of any crime. Is that not the parameter you set for establishing guilt? Is it one rule for Kalu + another for the rest of the world? And you accuse ME of being blind? Your Kalu love goggles are clouding YOUR judgement mate.

Whereas you are hoping that the day will come when Kalu will be ‘vindicated’ and you shall come here to say "I told you so", I assure you that day will never come for you if Kalu appears before a proper court. He will go straight to jail for sure. He will not pass ‘Go’ + he most definitely will not collect £200.


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Mz Udumeze:

It's good everything is happening in daylight so those still in doubt about the basic nature of the yoroba man, his culture, his "shofisticated diplomacy", his cowardly modus operandi, can best understand. These people will never come out and state clearly how they intend to procede on any issue, as in seeking third term for the baffoon. No, that would be un-shofisticated diplomacy. If they mark the rules clearly, they know they stand no chance of winning because they can't complete with better prepared opponents elsewhere in Biafra/nigeria. This is at the core of yoroba/hausa fear to open up the economy to competition and implement rational economic plans for sustained growth and improved standard of living. Instead like cowards, they prefer threachery, reverting to native cunnying, underhanded low road initiatives, going after symbols of corruption and smalltime crooks who have fallen out of favor, while leaving the entire corrupt edifice intact. For example, why is olusegun obasajo the minister of crude oil in charge of allocating oil blocks and awarding contracts; why not hand oil and other mineral production back to the states and owners of the land, regulate their behavior and charge them tax to support government services. This measure alone would instantly begin to regenerate the economy and improve productivity of the poeple.

What is the source of the money invested in olusegun obasanjo's farm in his ogun village; how did he earn that money as a public servant all his life. If he got financing, how much and from what investors? How much is IBB worth and where did he get all that money as a government employee all his life.

How does olusegun obasanjo avoid answering these questions and yet expect to be taken seriously on fighting corruption. This is the kind of native cunnying the yoroba man is famous for. I guess he just wants to give alayes a loud pompos belly laugh in their dingy lagos holes about how shofiacted, best educated they can play crude nigerian games. Imagine that the hausa has been in charge all this six years and has screwed up things at the level of this yoroba moron, the elite in that land would be crowling all over nigeria conspiring for a military replacement. That's how cowardly and shofisticated diplomatic they are.

We point this out to warn the yoroba and their Igbo efulefu sympathizers that it is not late to show yoroba sofistication and competence in the remaining time left. But very soon the tables will turn. These questions will be answered and all those yoroba now cheering this crook and fraudster will see him go to jail. At that time, we don't expect people joining the cowardly nation in their "shofisticated" diplomatic prostrations in centers of power around the world as they seek unreasonable help.

[ December 10, 2005, 08:01 PM: Message edited by: Amadi O. ]

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International crude oil interests have continued to use the crooked moron olusegun obasanjo to loot Biafran oil resources. Do not applaud the yoroba cretin for arresting Alams; its all gimmick meant to cover up. Bribery, pay-offs, hyper-corrupt practices taking place in nigeria is located in the oil industry, and olusegun obasanjo is the head, the Minister of that industry.

He will go to jail for massive stealing when the time comes.


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Addy wrote:
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Good talk all around. No one has however shown enough charity and courage of commending the head of the government who has shown some distinction of being the first head of government in Nigeria to publicly back the prosecution of a corrupt governor(in control of billions in bribe-money) and actually go as far as helping in his removal from office. Where are the good people of BNW?. Where is Mebiafran when i need him most?
Babbaboyz wrote:
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The thieving governors can jump bail and run, but they cannot hide. It is a new dawn and the days are numbered for all the looters of our treasury. The days of business as usual syndrome is gone and gone forever.

OBJ has finally broke the yoke of the untouchables.

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He will go to jail for massive stealing when the time comes. --Amadi O
My sentiments exactly, and thank you Mazi Amadi O; I couldn't have said it better.

However, I applaud when one thief turns against another, not the thief of course, but Providence, for providing such a welcome way of removing malefactors from the public purse, almost as efficient as the removal of carrion by vultures, but in manner, much less respectable. Anyone with at least a peanut-sized brain should be able to conclude from Obasanjo's personal history, that he is cut fron the same cloth as Alamieyeseigha, such that of right they ought to be cell mates. The internet is frock full of the excesses of this disgusting person detailing the dissapearance of billions without a trace, and without any apparent investigation into the loss(theft). And yet I hear people admonishing us to praise this man for his present actions, which seem to be no more than the convenient elimination of his enemies. It surprises me to see people like Babbaboyz, even with his questionable political views, insinuating that Obasanjo deserves credit in this debacle. And though I don't know much of Addy, I heretofore revered his opinion, by a sort of transmutation, as it were, of the respect MeBiafran has for it. Need I say that I was sorely dissappointed to hear this thinking man call for laudatory responses in support of a man who has the character of a tyrant, and whose very name is synonomous with corruption in Nigeria, from violating the public trust(and treasury of course) to election rigging. Under his watch, Nigeria has gained the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt country on earth; and now, according to him, we must praise him for turning on his fellow in criminal enterprise. This mentality is ripe for further study. Perhaps Nwa Aro can help us with this.

I think a good place to start is the idea of blind syncophancy, the willingness to look the other way when it comes to the misdeeds of the great protagonist, and praise him for that which seems to be good without regard to his sinister motivations. Such is the tenor of the posts I've read, implying or otherwise calling for us to give Obasanjo a measure of credit and applause.

This same thinking reminds me of the thread by Ayodele syncophantly entitled "Hail Obasanjo: Debt relief From the Paris Club A Reality." What? Am I missing something here? Is this man that great, that people want to hail him like Ceasar, or is he just a corrupt politician being "hailed" by followers who have for the moment conveniently closed their eyes to what he really is, a thief and a gangster? I think the facts speak for themselves.

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Any focused government must somehow always seek ways to arrest unlawful conducts which nigeria has been unable to going way back when. Everyday and every second my respect for the Republic of South Africa grows in leaps and bounds for their dogmatic confrontation of all the bull craps that affiliate all the other African countries. Deep inside I believe SA would have been like the rest of the continent had the people they share the country with (white folks) whose democratic spirit is enshrined as a way of life left them earlier. My friends and I believe that the colonial masters left that goddamn nigeria way too early, what was the rush to kick them outta there for? Looking back we can say Awolowo, Azikiwe, Enahoro, Abubarkar and any other clueless whose insistence was to see the British go did not do the rest of us any favor. Please when in doubt review South Africa and nigeria to see why this statement is truer now. Instead of harnessing what was given to the nigerian independence mongers on a platter of gold, they let their tribal bickering to overtake them. If they knew they had no means of maintaining the independence they selfishly sort, why not be quiet?

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S'Africa seizes Alamieyeseigha's N322m house

A LUXURY block of apartments in South Africa allegedly belonging to the impeached governor of Bayelsa State Diepreye Alamieyeseigha has been seized by the country's authorities.

According to an agency report, the Asset Forfeiture Unit of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday obtained a court order to attach and place under curatorship the property, which is worth $2.3 million (about N322 million).

The order, issued by the Cape High Court sitting in Cape Town, includes the seizure of all the contents of the apartments, including furniture worth about N35 million ($250,000), about N4 million ($31,666) held in trust by Platinum Places and Alamieyeseigha's share certificates held in the name of Royal Albatross Properties.
In the application, the NPA, also known as "Scorpions", claimed that Alamieyeseigha bought the property with proceeds of crime.

In granting the order, Justice Dennis Davis ruled that Alamieyeseigha and "all persons with knowledge of this order" are prohibited from "disposing of, taking possession of, interfering or dealing in any manner with the property.

The court also appointed Stephen Powell as curator, who has the responsibility to sell the property "probably by auction, and to repatriate the proceeds to the Nigerian government."
Davis also ordered that anyone affected by the order may return to court to show, within 14 days, good cause why the order should be reconsidered.

Head of the forfeiture unit Wille Hofmeyr said the seizure was the biggest anti-graft co-operation between South Africa and any foreign authority to combat corruption internationally.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the NPA have been working closely to track down the assets of corrupt public officials in South Africa.



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Note,what it said.....sell the property "probably by auction, and repatriate the proceeds to the Nigerian government". Now, thats accountability and that ought to teach other African leaders a lesson. South Africa may not the be the socalled "Giant of Africa, at least in numbers but she is unquestionably, David with the sophistication and intellectual know how of a giant.

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