A FEDERAL High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha, to a two-year imprisonment. But the embattled former Air Force chief declared that he was never impeached from office and accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of "sending a battalion from the Nigerian Army who over-ran the State House of Assembly."

Alamieyeseigha, who spoke in the open court minutes before the verdict yesterday, also declared that if he was much younger, he would not have pleaded to the guilty charge in exchange for the sentence passed on him by the trial judge, Mr. Justice Mohammed Shuiabu.

He said further that he had lost his wife and children. "I have gone through the shadow of death. I have been through hell since January 15, 2005 when I was arrested", he said.

Recounting his ordeal in London, Alamieyeseigha said he was kept among mad people by the Metropolitan police. He said when he started bleeding inside, he was sent back to Nigeria by the British authorities.

Although his speech was not recorded by the trial judge, Alamieyeseigha told the court that he was still carrying metal in his body.

@Poster

Its not 2years,its 12years and please post the website where u saw this cuz l heard mine on cool fm news at precisely 11.40 today

You can read it from todays Guardian link
www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article02



Vanguard 12 years, you can also read it from link
www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f127072007.html


The Sun 12 years link
www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2007/july/27/national-27-07-2007-001.htm

Good news as far as I am concerned. These people should be tried successfully so we call all get on with it

The 12 years was supposed to run concurrently, so in effect he would have served only 2 years minus the period he has already spent in custody.

This may be academic if the Nigerain Tribune newsflash is to be beleived. According to the newsflash, Alams has been released!

Crownvilla:

The 12 years was supposed to run concurrently, so in effect he would have served only 2 years minus the period he has already spent in custody.

This may be academic if the Nigerain Tribune newsflash is to be beleived. According to the newsflash, Alams has been released!

the more you see the less you understand,

Alams was whisked from Dubai last week
2 days later went into meeting with VP
next day he pleads guilty
2 days later gets a sentence that means he has spent more time in custody than he should
24hrs later he becomes a free man

I smell rat somewhere, something does not feel right

them say OBJ no dey obey court order, hope say this one no go dey toy with court verdicts (especially the VP)

hope say I house in court verdict will not equal 1 room in real life
hope say 1 billion naira shares will not equal 100,000naira in real life

Na for God hand we dey sha.

Court Verdict said he pleaded guilty and sentenced to two years in prison in addition to returning properties and various sums of money to the Bayelsa treasury. However since he has been in detention since December 2005 ( mind u 1 year in prison= 9months), he has served his term and is free to go.
There is no abracadra in that verdict or the way it was carried. It happens everywhere.

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article01