₦airaland Forum

OfoIgbo:
Please stop reasoning like someone that received half-baked education. Pay attention to the bolded statement above. Have you ever heard or read that American presidents bastardized their electoral process the way Buhari has rubbished the Nigerian electoral process? In America, when presidents are not up to scratch, they get voted out. In Nigeria, everyone knows that what happened in the 2019 election was a huge joke. The progress made during the GEJ era has been totally destroyed. With this situation in hand, I understand Sowore's moves to reset the system.
Nigeria cannot have a full-blown dictatorship in the guise of a democracy

Children of nowadays. Did you just say resetting the system? If the government allow that your fake system reset and the consequences starts, you will be running without even remembering the name of your village. Even parents will run and abandon their children. Stop contributing in a matter that is above you.

ColonelEmeka:
Immediately such a person finishes with that statement he will be picked up on the spot by state police and handed over to FBI and from that point he becomes history.

You cannot threaten a government with a coup. It just does not happen.

You can say that again. And everyone will agree that he broke the law. But here, people will see a spade and give it a nickname. Yet, they claim they are intelligent.

OfoIgbo:
The bolded statement above proves Sowore was not planning a coup against Buhari because he LOST the 2019 presidential election, otherwise why should he be going against the sharia chief justice and the governors. This basically proves Sowore was screaming against the general political malaise in our land, that has been devastating the country since 2015.

Of course we Igbos knew Buhari will be a disaster, and we Igbos have been vindicated. In the past we Igbos supported Yaradua so everyone knows Igbos had nothing against Fulanis. But when it came to Buhari, Igbos were smart to the tricks. The vindication of Igbos and the SS has been total. No one or section, will ever add Igbos and SS people to the list of those that contributed in running NIgeria aground since 2015.

As an Igbo man, whenever I see some of you sounding this hollow, I feel very ashamed. Because a typical Igbo man is more intelligent than what you people portray online.

Whether you believe it or not, if anybody no matter how aggrieved, ever make those kind of statements in America or any country for that matter, I bet he will never see the sky in his life time again.

I don't know why you people feel that any idiot that wakes up against buhari and his government becomes a hero or activist to you people. Not minding that the person may be gunning for his selfish agenda. But the fact that he has called buhari names, he becomes one giant activist to you people.Tufiakwa! ala aruola. Emere ya unu eme?

gidgiddy:
There is one thing that is fundamentally wrong in all you have said including the videos. It's one thing to parade videos that intends to show that Sowore wanted to institute a bloody revolution or unlawful change of government, it's another thing to prove it.

In the eyes of the law, guilty mind is not the same as guilty act. It doesnt matter how many videos anyone shows where Sowore wants revolution, you have to show he meant to carry out a revolution by his acts, not by his mere words alone. Breach of the law must be an act, it cant be mere words alone. It is impossible to overthrow government with mere words, you must be armed.

I remember some years ago that the Government classified IPOB as a terrorist group. The international community refused to accept that classification because IPOB is unarmed and there is no such thing as an "unarmed terrorist group"

So unless the government can show that Sowore and his "Revolution Now" group were armed, all this talk about treason and revolution are all a waste of time because it is impossible to overthrow a government without being armed

So the government and law enforcement agency should sit back and watch him set the country ablaze because they are yet to have evidence to show he meant what he was saying?

SarkinYarki:
Buhari has destroyed our Judiciary !!!!! There is no single iorta of justice in this country again

Did you say buhari? You people and surprises. As in he wrote the judgment for them or that he bribed them? I don't share the same view. Judiciary must fully take responsibility for their actions.

FFK is an opportunist. He waits just to attack people whereas he has nothing to offer.

Judiciary just causing confusion with the excuse of "evidence" and technicalities.

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Monday dismissed a suit filed by a Kano based lawyer Bulama Bukarti seeking an order of the court compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Governor Abdullahii Umar Ganduje for allegedly receiving kickback from a contractor.

The Judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence.

Bulama had approached the court seeking for an order compelling the EFCC to provide report of its forensic investigation analysis of the said video allegedly showing Ganduje receiving kickback from an unknown contractor.

However, Justice Egwuatu ruled that even though where the affidavit deposed to, is not countered, it is deemed admitted,the evidence therein must be cogent and verifiable.
The judge averred that the provisions of Freedom of Information Act 2011, required that information requested must be a public record and in the custody of the instruction of organization so requested from.

Justice Egwuatu dismissed the case on the grounds that the evidence before the court has not shown that the EFCC has the record of the forensic analysis of the bribery video allegations, noting that the report ought to be given to the Kano state House of Assembly ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the matter.

Chelsea will beat Bayern Munich home and away.

Jaqenhghar:
Why is it you people dont like the truth? You think car racing is just about getting a few cars and go for it

so the number of cars should be one million before you can call it car racing?

I have always known them to be fake.

Nonsense story. Oshomole was never barred, he was the one that excused himself from the program because of the tension it was generating.

CrimeKsmart:
Hahahaa

For naija wey we dey?

Some of you in rural villages always think that every part of Nigeria is like those your villages. Do you think that such racing just started in Nigeria? In case you don't know, motor racing, horse racing, bike racing and many others have been in Nigeria. And you should try and less your abuse of this country.

jeebz:
Socialism is Africa's problem especially in Nigeria where everything is government run. Dangote will enjoy first mover advantage but I expect more private investment in the refinery end of the oil and gas sector. Competition drives down prices as seen with telecoms deregulation in the early 2000's. The role of the government should be to provide security of lives and properties through law enforcement and providing a strong safety net for people who may be struggling.

Yes, competition is the ultimate. That's why government starting from Obasanjo's regime gave out licenses to many who wanted to operate refinery be it modular refinery or any size, but they seem not ready or they don't have the capacity to run it. So every patriotic Nigerian should be happy that we are about having not just anyone, but one of the biggest in the world.

Why will not it be so when every of them want to know why Tinubu drank water with big cup everyday, buhari is a Fulani who hates them. They do all these and overlook who their real enemies are, which is their brothers ruling them.

kattytamer:
This is why africa would always be backward, what exactly is your point oga? Have you ever heard of CNCC, sinopec, etc?

What exactly is your point now? Better still, who are you quarreling with?

jeebz:
Is that strange to you? I'd rather have a private refinery which works and solves our issue than FG run refinery that has not worked since the late 80's.

Don't mind those enemies of this country. Every good news about this country gets them angry. Relocate to their country of origin, they won't. Because no true citizen of this country will behave the way they do.

Jestin:
So Nigeria is going to depend on a private refinery to stop importation of fuel.....Na wah for my country.....FTC

They should have depended on your own? You people that get irritated whenever you hear any good news about this country, it's time the government Conduct's paternity and DNA test, to know which country you people actually came from. Because it's only an enemy or a spy that behaves the way you people do.

SLOVFO:
How many of these ones have been convicted and jailed? It seems that in Nigeria, you loot massively, forfeit a part of the loot and walk away to enjoy the rest.

That's why buhari had said that the biggest problem of this country is the judiciary. They sit on one case entertaining adjournment after adjournment. That's why Orji uzo kalu's case lasted for 12years in one court. So if he appeals the judgment, you now imagine how long it will last up to the supreme court.

Even with all these revelations, the Niger Deltans are still conferring chieftaincy titles to patience Jonathan at regular intervals.

It's really unfortunate we had Jonathan at the helm of affairs of this country. But only God knows why he allowed it.

Things are falling apart for Allen Onyeama and Air Peace, the US Department of Justice have indicted him for money laundering while Nigeria’s EFCC has launched an investigation into the books of one of Nigeria’s leading Airline Company.

In a game of names and conspiracies, new facts have emerged which point to the reality that the Jonathans, Mr. Timi Alaibe, former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commision and Kingsley Kuku, former Chairman of The Presidential Amnesty Program to former President Jonathan are the real owners of Nigerian Airline, Airpeace Nigeria LTD.

WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM

Kingsley Kuku during his time as Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Program converted his office as a fund raising scheme, and indeed the funds were raised. Several billions of unaccounted tax payers money were stolen from the Amnesty program, and when Kingsley Kuku’s time as Chairman was over, a clearly orchestrated arson was committed at the accounts records office of the Presidential Amnesty Office to erase all trace of theft and fraud, a well thought out plan, a well executed plan. But the eyes of Nigeria’s anti graft commissions were already on him, and he fled to the U.S. before he could answer to EFCC’s questions about a N6.2bn contract, he has been on exile since 2015.

THE FRONT – ALLEN ONYEAMA.

Allen Onyema, the publicly known owner of Air Peace was a legal practitioner based in Lagos until 2013 when Air Peace was inaugurated. He was not a business man who had build successful empires over time, he had no digital or analogue record of successful business ventures. In 2013, he had successfully obtained the permits to set up what would eventually be Nigeria’s biggest airline company from nothing.

The US Department of Justice a few weeks ago indicted Mr Onyeama for fraud and money laundering, apparently more people have began to ask the question “Where did Mr Allen get the funds to set up Air Peace from?”

Private investigations have revealed that Air Peace and “Mama Peace”, the nickname of Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan are no different from rain and water.

It has been gathered that Patience Goodluck Jonathan popular known as ‘Mama Peace’ who personally recommended the name ‘Air Peace Nigeria’. Patience Jonathan who had wanted her face to be behind the then newly founded airline was advised against it as it would have far reaching consequences on political optics seeing as Goodluck Jonathan made no attempt to revive the nation’s national Carrier.

Investigations confirmed that Mr. Timi Alaibe and Mr Kuku used Alex Onyema’s firm to open different NGOs and companies that were later used to transfer money in millions of dollars to US accounts that Mr. Allen Onyeama used to purchase the Airpeace Nigeria LTD fleet – This is why the U.S got involved.

In 2009, Mr. Timi Alaibe who had wanted to contest for Bayelsa governorship election after his stint as Senior Special Adviser on Amnesty to the president, approached Patience Jonathan the then First lady to help persuade President Jonathan to appoint his progeny Kingsley Kuku who served as his Personal Assisatnt while in NDDC to be Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Program in an attempt to cover his tracks.

Patience Jonathan agreed on the condition that her office will be constantly serviced by the Amnesty Office. Timi Alaibe agreed and a new alliance was forged between the duo. An alliance that would consequently give birth to Air Peace Airlines LTD.

FOLLOWING THE MONEY

A few months ago, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a financial audit of the Presidential Amnesty Program and the NDDC.

Consequently, the The United States Department of Justice charged Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, with bank fraud and money laundering “for moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes,” according to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.

Air Peace’s Chief of Administration and Finance, Ejiroghene Eghagha, was also being charged with bank fraud and committing aggravated identity theft in connection with the scheme.

According to the statement issued by the Department Office Justice, “Onyema allegedly leveraged his status as a prominent business leader and airline executive while using falsified documents to commit fraud.” U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak was quoted in the statement as saying; “We will diligently protect the integrity of our banking system from being corrupted by criminals, even when they disguise themselves in a cloak of international business.”

Robert J. Murphy , Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division who commented on the indictment said, “Allen Onyema’s status as a wealthy businessman turned out to be a fraud. He corrupted the U.S. banking system, but his trail of deceit and trickery came to a skidding halt. DEA would like to thank the many law enforcement partners and the subsequent prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office who aided in making this investigation a success.”

“Onyema setup various innocent sounding multi-million dollar asset purchases which were nothing more than alleged fronts for his scam,” said acting Special Agent in Charge Robert Hammer, who oversees HSI operations in Georgia and Alabama.

According to U.S. Attorney Pak, the indictment, and other information presented in court: “Onyema, a Nigerian citizen and businessman, is the founder and Chairman of several organizations that purport to promote peace across Nigeria, including the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony, International Center for Non-Violence and Peace Development, and All-Time Peace Media Communications Limited.

“Beginning in 2010, Onyema began travelling frequently to Atlanta, where he opened several personal and business bank accounts. Between 2010 and 2018, over $44.9 million was allegedly transferred into his Atlanta-based accounts from foreign sources.”

Onyema founded Air Peace in 2013.

According to the statement, “in years following the founding of Air Peace, he traveled to the United States and purchased multiple airplanes for the airline. However, over $3 million of the funds used to purchase the aircraft allegedly came from bank accounts for Foundation for Ethnic Harmony, International Center for Non-Violence and Peace Development, All-Time Peace Media Communications Limited, and Every Child Limited.

“Beginning in approximately May 2016, Onyema, together with Eghagha, allegedly used a series of export letters of credit to cause banks to transfer more than $20 million into Atlanta-based bank accounts controlled by Onyema. The letters of credit were purportedly to fund the purchase of five separate Boeing 737 passenger planes by Air Peace. The letters were supported by documents such as purchase agreements, bills of sale, and appraisals proving that Air Peace was purchasing the aircraft from Springfield Aviation Company LLC, a business registered in Georgia.

“However, the supporting documents were fake — Springfield Aviation Company LLC, which is owned by Onyema and managed by a person with no connection to the aviation business, never owned the aircraft, and the company that allegedly drafted the appraisals did not exist.

“Eghagha allegedly participated in this scheme as well, directing the Springfield Aviation manager to sign and send false documents to banks and even using the manager’s identity to further the fraud. After Onyema received the money in the United States, he allegedly laundered over $16 million of the proceeds of the fraud by transferring it to other accounts.”

Onyema and Eghagha were indicted on November 19, 2019, on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, three counts of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit credit application fraud, and three counts of credit application fraud.

Additionally, Onyema was charged with 27 counts of money laundering, and Eghagha was charged with one count of aggravated identity theft.

You would recall that in 2014, Diepreye Dikibo, spokesman of the ex-Militant Leaders Forum in the Niger Delta, alleged that Onyema and Kingsley Kuku, former adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs, used funds meant for the amnesty programme to float Air Peace.

Kuku was the coordinator of the project while Onyema was a consultant.

In a statement, Dikibo alleged that Onyema’s Foundation for Ethnic Harmony was one of the biggest beneficiaries of contracts from presidential amnesty programme.

Read an excerpt of the statement from the spokesman of the ex-militant leaders as published on www.thecable.ng 24th November 2019.

Initially, there were rumors that Air Peace, a new Airline whose aircraft have recently been cited at Lagos Airports belong to the First Lady Patience Faka Jonathan. That is all not true. We believe at this moment, that those who churned out the story that the Airlines belonged to the First Lady did so deliberately to hide the truth and to mislead the people.

The truth did not take too long to come out. Business concerns owned by Allen Onyema, a Lagos based businessman, colleague and close confidant of the Special adviser to the President on Niger Delta & Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme Kingsley Kuku have not been confirmed as responsible for the Airlines and more to that, Allen Onyema has now publicly confirmed that he is the Chairman of the Air Peace Airlines.

Allen Onyeama’s business outfit handled the demobilization and orientation of former Niger Delta militants which cost billions of Naira to run. Allen Onyema has also been responsible for high valued training contracts (running into billions) in the areas of welding training as well as aviation training for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in countries such as South Africa, The United States and Dubai.

Kingsley Kuku, Allen Onyema with House of Reps Committee Members on the Niger Delta visiting Proclad Academy, Dubai (Where Allen Onyema’s business outfit ICNPD) is training Niger Delta youths in Welding for millions of dollars.

The appointment of Kingsley Kuku as SA, Niger Delta & Chairman of the Amnesty Programme in January 2011, was a huge blessing for Allen Onyema as it gave him automatic access to a monster chunk of the more than sixty billion naira allocated to the amnesty programme yearly.

Two of Allen Onyeama’s NGOs which also double as business outfits are known to be the biggest beneficiary of large value Presidential Amnesty Contracts and we can confirm that none of these outfits has any ties to the First Lady Patience Jonathan.

They include the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria (FEHN) and the International Center for Non-violence & Peace Development (ICNPD).

All the contracts awarded to Allen Onyema and his business run into millions of dollars and are all grossly inflated and over valued in a manner designed to short change the Amnesty Programme and steal the billions of naira yearly allocated to the manage the amnesty program in the Niger Delta.
End of excerpt.

Since her husband, Ex-president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, was voted out of power in 2015, Patience Jonathan has been dragged to court at least four times by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC), with the target of reclaiming both money and properties allegedly acquired with “proceeds of unlawful activities.”

*Culled from leaders.ng

I have always said it that those that call my state Ebonyi a backward state will soon denounce their words. Let them wait, they have not seen all from my brother Umahi. That man will or has since been teaching other governors how best to manage resources. He is unarguably the best.

edoairways:
Hope he employs the right persons based on merit not who know man. Human asset is major pillar in an organization even if the organization is as tall as an iroko tree

He is a man of high test, so that won't be a problem.

Asquare84:
Can somebody tell me any single project that have been initiated or commission in benue state

Ortom refused to play wise politics so he started wrongly. Foolish people think that when you start attacking buhari and anything he associates with is an achievement on it's own. They forgot it can only make you to lose focus and you end up a failure.

Congratulations to the new couple.

Enemyofpeace:
And this man ran to APC to avoid all this, not knowing that the beast called Buhari has no friend outside the north and islam

You are a disgrace to your age grade.

So sun newspaper's business premises is the one looking like a kitchen?

kallmemrB:
Nigeria is a failed state where everyone is fighting for self interest

Nigeria is not and will never be a failed state.

madridsta007:
Tinubu’s the Nation and their manufactured article.
No pictures.
No videos.
No specific names of those who witnessed the “event”.

Just a manufactured story about an event on the PDP that they have said many times is dead.

Propaganda FC. Luckily most Nigerians can see through this nonsense.

If you are a serious minded person, you would not demand for pictures and videos because they are certainly not relevant in the matter under discussion. And even if they were provided, you would still have changed the narrative.

I am really tired for my people. Look how we are celebrating someone with records of looting the common treasury.

lonelydora:
Don't misunderstand me. I am very happy Orji Uzo was jailed. He thought by joining APC his sins will be forgiven. Isn't it better he stayed with PPA and still get jailed, instead of betraying his people.

Your judgment is still wrong in my opinion. Joining APC does not amount to betraying his people. Otherwise what will you say about peter Obi who left APGA and joined PDP and many others like him. Betraying his people is when he has denied them what is due to them especially when the subject matter is part of why they elected him in the first place, just as in this matter.

And don't forget that it was not PPA platform that elevated Orji, but PDP. But to me, it doesn't matter whichever party, rather, what is important is what you are able to do regardless of the platform.