Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

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Diepreye Alamieyeseigha with the US Ambassador (2001)

Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha (born November 16, 1952 in Amassoma , Nigeria ; † October 10, 2015 in Port Harcourt , Nigeria) was a Nigerian politician. He was Governor of Bayelsa State and was arrested in London on suspicion of money laundering . He was last imprisoned in Nigeria.

governor

Alamieyeseigha was a civil servant before joining the Nigerian Air Force in 1974 , which he left in 1992. His opponent in the 1999 gubernatorial election accused him of voluntarily resigning from the military in order not to be fired for fraud. As a member of the People's Democratic Party , he was governor of the oil-rich state of Bayelsa from May 29, 1999 to December 9, 2005.

arrest

On December 15, 2004, while on a trip to England, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was arrested at Heathrow Airport , citing information from the Nigerian Commission on Economic and Financial Crime (EFCC) . He was suspected of embezzling up to 11 million euros in government funds and thus acquiring an oil refinery in Ecuador and several residences abroad. The British police seized around 2.4 million euros in London, but Alamieyeseigha denied their possession.

Return to Nigeria

After Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was released on bail for two months, he fled England with forged papers and allegedly disguised as a woman and reappeared in Nigeria on September 21, 2005. The residents of Bayelsa celebrated him as a resistance fighter against the Nigerian government, which withheld most of the income from oil production in the Niger Delta . After he was expelled from the People's Democratic Party and removed from office by the Bayelsa Parliament, thereby losing his political immunity , he was arrested again on December 9, 2005. Rebel organizations such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta have since demanded his release.

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  1. ↑ Alamieyeseigha Dies In Port Harcourt ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / leadership.ng
  2. ↑ BBC News: “Nigeria's runaway governor,” Dec. 6, 2005
  3. ↑ Jean-Christophe Servant: The oil of anger . In: Le Monde diplomatique , April 2006.
  4. ↑ BBC News: Nigeria governor on fraud charges , December 20, 2005
  5. ^ Diepreye Alamieyeseigha: Impeached and arrested , December 6, 2005
predecessor Office successor
Paul Obi Governor of Bayelsa
1999 - 2005 		Goodluck Jonathan
personal data
SURNAME Alamieyeseigha, Diepreye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alamieyeseigha, Diepreye Solomon Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Amassoma , Nigeria
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2015
Place of death Port Harcourt , Nigeria