A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has died of hypertension.

Former State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Ebitimi Agary, confirmed this to our correspondent on Saturday.

Alamieyeseigha, 63, was said to have died at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where we was receiving medical attention.

Chief Press Secretary to Bayelsa Governor, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria, in a telephone interview.

He said government would issue a statement on the death of the former Air Force Officer.

The United Kingdom government, which arrested the former governor on allegation of money laundering in September 2005 during the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, recently requested for the extradition of Alamieyeseigha to face the charges for the alleged crime in the UK.

He had earlier been impeached, arrested, tried and convicted and sent to jail in Nigeria for two years in 2007 for fraud after he fled the UK, disguising as a woman to evade trial in December, 2005.


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Coming from a man who pulled the dressed like a woman's stunt? I will need to see his body to believe.

Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha ("DSP" (16 November 1952 – 10 October 2015) was governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005.

Background
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was born in 16 November 1952 in Amassoma, Ogboin North Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. He attended the Bishop Dimeari Grammar School, Yenagoa. He joined the Nigerian Defence Academy as a Cadet Officer in 1974, then joined the Nigerian Air Force, where he served in the department of Logistics and Supply. He held various air force positions in Enugu, Markurdi, Kaduna and Ikeja. Alamieyeseigha retired from the air force in 1992 as a Squadron Leader.[1]
After leaving the air force he became the Sole Administrator of Pabod Supplies Port Harcourt. Later he became Head of Budget, Planning, Research and Development of the National Fertiliser Company (NAFCON).[1]
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was impeached on allegations of corruption on 9 December 2005.[2]

Governor of Bayelsa State
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was elected Governor of Bayelsa State in May 1999 as a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He was re-elected in 2003.[2] Vice President Atiku Abubakar attended the March 2003 event that kicked of his campaign for reelection in 2003.

Corruption charges

United Kingdom
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was detained in London on charges of money laundering in September 2005. At the time of his arrest, Metropolitan police found about £1m in cash in his London home. Later they found a total of £1.8m ($3.2m) in cash and bank accounts.[4] He has been found to own real estate in London worth an alleged £10 million.[citation needed] His state's monthly federal allocation for the last six years has been in the order of £32 million.[citation needed] He jumped bail in December 2005 from the United Kingdom by allegedly disguising himself as a woman, though Alamieyeseigha denies this claim.[5]

Nigeria
On July 26, 2007, Alamieyeseigha pleaded guilty before a Nigerian court to six charges and was sentenced to two years in prison on each charge; however, because the sentences were set to run concurrently and the time was counted from the point of his arrest nearly two years before the sentences, his actual sentence was relatively short. Many of his assets were ordered to be forfeited to the Bayelsa state government. According to Alamieyeseigha, he only pled guilty due to his age and would have fought the charges had he been younger.[6] On July 27, just hours after being taken to prison, he was released due to time already served.[7]
In April 2009, Alamieyeseigha pledged a donation of 3,000,000 Naira to the Akassa Development Foundation.[citation needed]
In December 2009, the federal government hired a British law firm to help dispose of four expensive properties acquired by Alamieyeseigha in London. Alamieyeseigha had bought one of these properties for £1,750,000.00 in July 2003, paying in cash. Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha used it as his London residence, and as the registered office of Solomon and Peters Inc.[8]

United States
On June 28, 2012, the United States (US) Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it had executed an asset forfeiture order on $401,931 in a Massachusetts brokerage fund, traceable to Alamieyeseigha. US prosecutors filed court papers in April 2011 targeting the Massachusetts brokerage fund and a $600,000 Maryland home, which they alleged were the proceeds of corruption. A motion for default judgement and civil forfeiture was granted by a Massachusetts federal district judge in early June 2012. The forfeiture order was the first to be made under the DoJ’s fledgling Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.[9]

Pardon
On 12 March 2013, Alamieyeseigha was pardoned by President Goodluck Jonathan, but his pardoning was criticised by many.[10][11]

Death
On the 10th of October, 2015, he reportedly died at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, after a brief illness


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Idonbelivit

emmanuel596:
Idonbelivit

sad enough it is real

No peace for wicked

Ibori in jail, Dieziani in hospital, Alameyesiegha's dead.

Mehn... KARMA is a b*tch

APC and BUHARI, thank you for killing Niger delta children, first it was Sam Nkobia former PDP bayelsa state chairman, now it is Alamesigha. BUHARI keep on killing us, very soon it will be your turn.