dexmond:

Who do we now believe? I think it is reasonable to still go with the report as a drowning man will cleave to a straw.

I have, from day one, not been able to verify this story and the article has it that Aondoakaa was elected back in 2008. I am however, still not certain about what his current status is, and there is the chance that this man is actually not as dirty as we would like to think either.

ElRazur
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@Kobo remember say you go born pickin one day sha o. Your sins would be taken out on them.

US state department surces told Saharareporters that the travel ban on Aondoakaa would also be extended two of his children or relative who were granted student visas. We could not confirm if these two are currently in the US. However, we could confirm three  of Aondoakaa's daughters are currentliving in London with his second wife Susan.

Two of them are attending college in London while a third one attends a private school.
Elizabeth Aondoakaa attends  City University Of London and Anna Aondoakaa is a student at the University of  Surrey, the youngest daughter Susan Nwese Aondoakaa is at private primary school in Lonodn.

Our sources further revealed that two boys Akugha Aondoakaa and Samuel Aondoakaa and another daughter from his second wife, now lives in London with Aondoakaa's first wife, Susan. [b]The second wife lives in a secret mansion in the Rayfield GRA area in Jos [/b]where Aondoakaa mostly hid exotic cars he received from various extortion schemes while he was AGF are kept.

ROCK-J:

I’ve not been banned from U.S. –Aondoakaa
From Taiwo Amodu, Abuja
Sunday, June 27, 2010


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Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Michael Aondoakaa, has denied media reports that he has been banned from entering the United States. An online publication had reported that the entry visa of the former justice minister who is on an international assignment with the United Nations has been revoked.

It also reported that a foreign account in South Africa, with staggering sum of $44 million, belonging to the former AGF had also been frozen.
Reacting to the report yesterday in Abuja through his special assistant (media), Mr. Onov Tyuluugh, the former justice minister dismissed it as unfounded.

Aondoakaa who told journalists that his entry visa to the United States remains intact, said: “I have not been banned from entering the United States and I have my visa intact. Secondly, none of my relatives has a student visa to the United States as claimed by a media report. Therefore, the US Government cannot revoke what they did not issue.

“The publication is a great misconception of how the US State Department works. The issue of revocation of visa of any foreigner, including student visa, cannot be a matter for the President of the US, who is considered to be the leader of the world. It is a matter of State Department which ends on the table of the Secretary of State.”
He also denied that a sum of $44 million belonging to him in a South African bank was allegedly frozen, submitting that he has no such account and has never visited the country.

“I have no single bank account in the United States or any foreign bank account anywhere in the world, including South Africa. I have not visited South Africa throughout my lifetime. The allegation of freezing $44million transaction and linking me with it is an April Fool story. I have not done any transaction with anybody anywhere in the world.”

He expressed surprise that the United States, which endorsed his candidature and gave him maximum support when he was nominated into the Governing Council of the United Nations, was now being linked with a spurious allegation of visa denial.

“My being a member of the Governing Council of a UN body was through an election and the U.S. Government voted for my candidature. There was an agreement sent by Nigerian Foreign Affairs Ministry to all countries, including the U.S. before I was elected. The US Government supported and voted for me during the election in 2009 in Rome. Apart from the US, France, Britain, Germany and all the superpowers voted for me. The records are there.”

Friday, July 2, 2010
We've revoked Aondoakaa's visa - US

Emeka Madunagu and Comfort Oseghale


The United States Government on Thursday confirmed that it had barred Nigeria's former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, SAN, from entering its territory.


Michael Aondoakaa (SAN)



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A blog, Saharareporters.com, had reported on Thursday last week that US President Barack Obama ordered the revocation of Aondoakaa's visa for unspecified links to corruption.

Aondoakaa swiftly denied the report, saying that he had not received any communication from either the US Department of State or the US Embassy in Abuja to that effect.

He had said, "In the first instance, the revocation of visa of a citizen entering the US does not go through Obama. It is just a matter of the state department revoking your visa."

However, the US Embassy in Abuja, through one of its top officials, confirmed to one of our correspondents that the former AGF and his family had indeed been barred from entering the United States.

Reading from a prepared text on the telephone, the diplomat said, "The United States has indeed revoked the visa of the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 7750, which provides authority to deny entry to the United States to persons with links to corruption."

Prodded for further details, the diplomat said the information was restricted to the text.

By this development, Aondoakaa's position as a member of the governing council of the United Nations Institute for Unification of Private Laws may be hampered.

Former US President George W. Bush had on January 12, 2004 signed Proclamation 7750, to restrict foreign officials and their family members allegedly linked to corruption.

The full text of the proclamation is posted on http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-957.pdf.

The proclamation had earlier been used to bar a former governor of Plateau State, Chief Joshua Dariye, and his family from entering the US in 2004, . . . . .