Alams Bags 2 Years In Jail! Print E-mail
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Thursday, 26 July 2007
Jail term for Nigeria ex-governor
Former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

A Lagos high court has sentenced a former Nigerian governor to two years in prison after it found him guilty of money laundering.

Dieprieye Alamieyeseigha was arrested in December 2005 in Bayelsa's state capital after jumping bail in the UK.

Officials said Alamieyeseigha left the UK disguised in women's clothing, a claim he has consistently denied.

As Nigeria battles to shed a reputation for corruption, this is the first ex-governor to be convicted for graft.

He was accused of owning multi-million dollar mansions in Nigeria and abroad and pleaded guilty to embezzlement and money laundering.

Five other former governors are currently facing sundry charges of corruption, theft and money laundering in courts in Abuja and Lagos




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What????????????? Just 2 years??? Any other restitutions??

Faddy

Posted by Faddy| 26.07.2007 12:53

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no cause for ALAMS! you will never walk alone. others are coming

Posted by endee| 26.07.2007 12:54

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I personally think this is a CHEAP JUDGEMENT but atleast the warning bell has been sounded.

He siphoned governmental funds meant for the growth of the populace, jumped a foreign bail etal and still got away with just 18 months in jail.........

Who's next?

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2 years pere?

Posted by dapxin| 26.07.2007 13:20

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"Behold: The Government of Nigeria and their Evil Agent Nuhu Ribadu and those "Janjaweed" Yoruba people have finally had their way! The systematic elimination of Ijaw Sons and Daughters have begun in earnest, with the unjust, unfair, undeserved and callous incaceration of our innocent Governor-General Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeshiegha. See how they treat us? You see what I mean when I say they want us all dead? Behold another proof of their genocide, Folks!"

"This is unbriddled injustice! This is a rape of the notion of justice. A man has been singled out for manhandling when other thieves abound roaming free. This is an attack on Ijaws by the Janjaweed Yorubas, who are out to kill all of Ijaw systematically, by depriving them of their funds - leaving them to starve and die. The Yoruba nation is doing it. They want to kill the Governor General - the man who helped us steal the money and hide it abroad - away from those Yoruba Goons!"

"Behold, a whole two years was handed to to our fellow Ijawman for hiding our money away from the prying hands of those Greedy Oduduwa Sons and their "Nigerian" brothers - fcuking two years man!!! For what? For watching out for and protecting his people from external exploitation? The poor man simply travelled to reduce the size of his protruding gut, and he decided to help us stash our monies away in a foreign land and invest some. But they still managed to arrest him on trumped-up charges!"

"Behold, the persecution of an Ijaw son in whom we are well pleased. They wanted to kill him but he won't die. They wanted to lock him up, but he won't stay locked up, as the "Grace of God" helped him 'fly' across many Seas, Rivers and an Ocean to the Delta of the Niger - into the waiting arms of his people. The same "God" that granted him flight from the land of the white men who wanted to kill him shall grant him flight from his current Yoruba captors in Nigeria! Somebody shout "Yamen!" "

"One day, one day, we shall free ourselves from the clutches of the Yoruba Overlords and their Nigerian friends who come to plunder our lands. Our swamps and creeks shall swallow them up and make more fossil fuel of their bodies. The snakes in our mangroove shall drive them away. We shall swallow boiled egss and live underwater - Juju Styleh- for days on end and show those Yoruba people pepper. They will know that when you jail one of us for keeping our money for us, you have jailed all of us!"

"I am the "Son of the Delta", and I approve this Message! :D"

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Please don't forget that the time served whilst waiting for trial, etc may be taken into account and the man may well only now need to serve a few months in luxurious prison! Is he going to be slammed like a common prisoner - no! Anyway, it is a start. We need to learn some lessons from the way the Chinese deal with these sort of things - heads on the parapet for all the looters of our common wealth.

Posted by ajimoh| 26.07.2007 13:24

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Hi, folks!

I am sure our very beloved, fire-for-fire, good old community policeman, Ogbeni Olopa Tafa Balogun, (LLB; MSc; GCON) must be having a very good belly-full last laugh now, in one of his several cream white-coloured mansions in Maitama District, Abuja.

Maybe, Sir (Dr.) Peter Odili (JP) will get 40 years imprisonment, seeing that the sentences are very light!

I dey come-o!

Obrigado.

Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)

Posted by Abraxas| 26.07.2007 13:46

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2 years means 2 months in prison and that is all.....

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=Auspicious;195064>"Behold: The Government of Nigeria and their Evil Agent Nuhu Ribadu and those "Janjaweed" Yoruba people have finally had their way! The systematic elimination of Ijaw Sons and Daughters have begun in earnest, with the unjust, unfair, undeserved and callous incaceration of our innocent Governor-General Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeshiegha. See how they treat us? You see what I mean when I say they want us all dead? Behold another proof of their genocide, Folks!"

"This is unbriddled injustice! This is a rape of the notion of justice. A man has been singled out for manhandling when other thieves abound roaming free. This is an attack on Ijaws by the Janjaweed Yorubas, who are out to kill all of Ijaw systematically, by depriving them of their funds - leaving them to starve and die. The Yoruba nation is doing it. They want to kill the Governor General - the man who helped us steal the money and hide it abroad - away from those Yoruba Goons!"

"Behold, a whole two years was handed to to our fellow Ijawman for hiding our money away from the prying hands of those Greedy Oduduwa Sons and their "Nigerian" brothers - fcuking two years man!!! For what? For watching out for and protecting his people from external exploitation? The poor man simply travelled to reduce the size of his protruding gut, and he decided to help us stash our monies away in a foreign land and invest some. But they still managed to arrest him on trumped-up charges!"

"Behold, the persecution of an Ijaw son in whom we are well pleased. They wanted to kill him but he won't die. They wanted to lock him up, but he won't stay locked up, as the "Grace of God" helped him 'fly' across many Seas, Rivers and an Ocean to the Delta of the Niger - into the waiting arms of his people. The same "God" that granted him flight from the land of the white men who wanted to kill him shall grant him flight from his current Yoruba captors in Nigeria! Somebody shout "Yamen!" "

"One day, one day, we shall free ourselves from the clutches of the Yoruba Overlords and their Nigerian friends who come to plunder our lands. Our swamps and creeks shall swallow them up and make more fossil fuel of their bodies. The snakes in our mangroove shall drive them away. We shall swallow boiled egss and live underwater - Juju Styleh- for days on end and show those Yoruba people pepper. They will know that when you jail one of us for keeping our money for us, you have jailed all of us!"

"I am the "Son of the Delta", and I approve this Message! :D"



Auspy,
We need to get something right here, did you write/post the above or its a quote from someone else?

Make una no start another wahala with this Na my Brother Syndrome, na Yoruba jail Alams ni? He has been convicted, let him appeal or serve the jail term.

Cheers,
Wale

Posted by WaleAkin| 26.07.2007 14:00

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