The same Kevin who once dated Eve, the rapper?
Nana Addo’s Boy Kevin Okyere On Interpol Radar
01-Oct-2015
Information reaching The aL-hAJJ indicates that the General Buhari government in Nigeria is falling on the International Police (Interpol) to assist it (government) locate and arrest some former officials of the Goodluck Jonathan administration and people associated with it but, who are suspected of ‘soiling their hands’ and having flee the country.
Prominent among the people Interpol is said to be on their heels are the immediate past Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke and her alleged former Ghanaian “lover boy” Kevin Okyere, who is the Chief Executive of Springfield Oil & Gas and also, husband of a niece of NPP 2016 flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s wife.
Kevin Okyere and Diezani Alison-Madueke, according to media reports, and Nigeria government sources, are wanted for allegedly stashing monies in bank accounts in Ghana and overseas on behalf of the ex-Nigeria minister of Petroleum.
Even though Kevin Okyere is well-known in NPP circles to have financed Nana Akufo-Addo’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, his dalliance with the largest Ghanaian opposition party was said to have hit the rocks following a recent failed attempt by Kevin to raise funds in UK in furtherance of the twice defeated presidential candidate’s third and possibly, last bid for the presidency in 2016.
A very dependable source told The aL-hAJJ that Kevin Okyere, who was the brain behind the NPP’s innovative mobile telephony campaign- using mobile voice messages from Nana Akufo-Addo during the 2012 elections, recently attempted to repair his soiled relations with the NPP when he opted to raised funds from partners in UK for Nana Akufo-Addo’s 2016 campaign.
He was said to have been accompanied to UK by Nana Akufo-Addo’s brother to broker the deal. However, “after sitting outside for close to three hours, Kevin came out to tell Nana’s brother that his partners said they don’t have faith in Nana winning the 2016 elections so they were not going to finance the campaign,” the source disclosed.
Having had his hopes dashed by Kevin Okyere’s inability to convince his pals in UK to finance Nana’s campaign, the brother of the 2016 flag bearer of the NPP was said to have been infuriated by their son-in-law’s behavior and has vowed he will pay for it.
That is not the only reason for Kevin’s sour relations with the NPP; a party insider told this paper.
According to the source, Kevin Okyere, who benefitted immensely under the Kufuor/NPP regime, was “all of a sudden noticed to be hobnobbing with President John Mahama as soon as Mahama was sworn into office on July 2012 following the death of the late President Mills…, and we are aware of all the financial support he gave to the NDC ahead of the 2012 elections that aided Mahama to defeat Nana”.
Adding that, “we know who and how Kevin Okyere maneuvered his way into the Mahama government, courtesy some powerful and influential officials close to the president…and at the appropriate time we will lay bare all the facts”.
Perhaps, carrying through threats to punish Kevin for the embarrassment in London, and capitalizing on Nigerian President, Mahammadu Buhari’s vow to probe all alleged cases of corruption under the erstwhile Goodluck Jonathan government, and Kevin Okyere’s close association with Diezani Alison-Madueke, the “official” mouthpiece of Nana Akufo-Addo’s campaign, the New Statesman last week published a front page story, detailing how Kevin Okyere played a key role in the purported looting of money by the troubled former Petroleum Minister of Nigeria.
Relying on reports in Nigerian newspaper’s to nail Kevin Okyere, who is also said to be bragging about his connection and influence within the John Mahama government and the first family, the New Statesmen stated that “it has come across details of millions of dollars lodged in bank accounts here in Ghana. In one instance…, the paper reported that, $4 million worth of cash was deposited into one account, (name of the bank and account holder withheld for now).”
“After President Buhari’s trip to the United States, it was revealed that the US Attorney-General provided a dossier on $6 billion allegedly stolen by a minister under Jonathan. A source at the Presidency reportedly confirmed to Sahara Reporters that Ms. Alison-Madueke was the minister in question.
Again, in July, Sahara Reporters wrote that Diezani Alison-Madueke offered to refund the sum of $250 million dollars to the Nigerian government in return for immunity from prosecution. However, President Buhari reportedly rejected this offer.
So how could one person, a female minister at that, possibly have looted the billions of petrol-dollar she is accused of?
Ms. Alison-Madueke, according to reports from Nigeria, used cohorts she handpicked to systematically plunge Nigeria’s oil revenues and deprive Nigerians of billions of dollars of oil revenues.
As one report put it, “That Diezani Alison-Madueke made a lot of men billionaires is no longer news. The former Nigerian Petroleum Minister is an alluring bulk of beauty, brains and a shining loveliness that attracts the best and most glamorous of the male pack to her, as pollen nectar draws butterflies to its sweetness.”
Among the big players in her web of influence were Kogi-born businessman, Jide Omokore, Ben Peters, Igho Salome, Kola Aluko and a young Ghanaian businessman, Kevin Okyere.”
The story added that “Kevin Okyere, who has strong links with the Mahama government in Ghana and had even stronger links with the erstwhile Jonathan government in Nigeria, is the CEO of Springfield Oil & Gas.
Springfield is an oil company that owns an oil block here in Ghana and was awarded lucrative oil lifting deals in Nigeria with NNPC, worth over $100 million dollars.
Springfield’s oil block, with proven reserves, in Ghana was originally awarded to Tullow Oil, but according media reports, the then Energy Minister, Dr Joe Oteng-Adjei, mysteriously gave the block to Springfield and Vaalco, a Houston-based oil company with operations in Gabon and Angola.
According to the reports, Kevin Okyere was behind Westland Alliance Ltd, a company that was involved in the Vodafone takeover of GT in Ghana. His company’s contract with Vodafone was cancelled when President John Atta Mills took over in 2009. But, he soon managed to weave his way back.”
Meanwhile, The aL-hAJJ has gathered that Nana Akufo-Addo and his men plan linking wife of Ghanaian President, Lordina Mahama to the said $4 million the New Statesman claimed was deposited into an account in Ghana.
With their vow to smear President Mahama and his household with false and malicious charges ahead of the crucial 2016 elections, party insiders say, “they claim the money was deposited in Ghana by Kevin on behalf of the first lady…it seems Kevin’s close association with the president was facilitated by Lordina so since Kevin has close links with the former Nigerian Petroleum Minister, they want to link the first lady to the alleged stashed cash by the former Petroleum Minister”
Kevin Okyere, who is also reported as nephew of former President Kufuor and one of the prime beneficiaries of the sale of GT to Vodafone, is said to have acquired expensive properties in plush sites in New York, Los Angeles, North London and prime areas in Accra like Trassaco, Airport Hills and East Legon,” and the Interpol is said to be combing for these properties.
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