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heendrix:
But how come?? who go neutralize his powers? cause the Gana me know no fit just die like fowl o

Ayamaduwe are you ready to take over?

Gana committed suicide.

This is one reason I do not trust Africans. The Gana of a dude committed suicide. If I were to be in his shoes, the killing spree will never stop until I have achieved my goals. There will be no talk of amnesty or surrender.

stephanie11:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM


A Former Governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that he can convince the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu to come back to Nigeria and end the agitation for Biafra.

Kalu, in a statement made available to the press in Abuja on Tuesday, said he that Kanu will listen to him.

"If the Federal Government permits me, I will go to the United Kingdom and negotiate with Nnamdi Kanu to return to Nigeria."

"I will convince him to drop the agitation for Biafra because our people don’t need it," Kalu said.

The Senate Chief Whip maintained that he is a believer in 'One Nigeria', adding that people of Nigeria are entangled with each other. He stated that Nigerians need to focus on is taking advantage of the country’s population to build a stronger economy.



https://politicsnigeria.com/i-can-bring-nnamdi-kanu-back-to-nigeria-convince-him-to-end-biafra-orji-kalu-tells-buhari/

This moronic jackass has sounded like a willing tool. He just rehearsed the riot act handed to him by his masters. My grandfather told me it is culturally prudent for a child to know his\her father.

neduwealth:
"The Southern Kaduna killings is madness and has to be stopped immediately. No man in his right senses goes on a killing spree of innocent people under whatever guise"- His Eminence Muhammed Sa'ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto.



Femi Fani-Kayode took to his official facebook page to commend the Sultan for having the courage and fortitude to speak the bitter truth! This statement alone will go a long way in restoring peace and ethnic and religious harmony in the country, He Stated.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/12297099_img20200909042005_jpegbbdbbb97c3950497c9108869598ceeed

Source:http://www.neduwealth.com/2020/09/southern-kaduna-killings-is-madness-and.html?m=1

Arrant nonsense!!! Why only Southern Kaduna? The dude should have said that "Killing in Nigeria" by the Fulani herdsmen sponsored by Nigerian government and Islamic outfits should stop. Nigerian seem to be home with mediocrity. Why should Mr. Fani-Kayode get silly erection by a nonsensical crap from Sokoto.?

Yari.ba and loudmouth are twins.

AnanseK:
Did he kill innocent people or did he not? Was he a murderer or not? If he killed a member of your family would You consider his death in hands of soldiers as injustice?

Gana was still a wanted person by the Nigerian Military and Ortom went ahead to give him amnesty. Is that local amnesty binding to

to the Nigerian Military command ?

Why were the so-called repentant Boko Harams not killed? Were they not murderers too? If they had killed your family member, would have considered their free ride a justice? Boko Haram fighters are still killing Nigerians of every cadre till date. It is very pertinent Nigeria is disintegrated.

TruthinAction:
I don't know why people can't read between lines. The said Gana was granted amnesty by the state Governor and was killed by the military unjustly.

Why didn't they kill repentant Boko Haram? You will never hear them kill even a Fulani herdsman.

This is also what is going on in Niger Delta. When they catch any Niger Delta militants, they kill them without fair trial but Boko Haram members are released and reintegrated into the society. And we call this one Nigeria. Cursed be any Christian or southerner that still pledge allegiance to this evil government.

When a stranger of distinct culture tells you to kill your neighbor of close affinity and you did as the stranger instructed, the stranger will henceforth look at you as willing tool that will given a toilet paper treatment. One such dumbass dingbat even claimed that his brother from the same mother, the Prime minister from Bauchi, was killed by the Igbo. Nigeria died the moment it was given birth.

What any other evidence do the doubters of Fulani agenda in Nigeria need? The so-called repentant Boko Harams are given hero's welcome and lush lunch by the federal government while the defenders from other ethnicity are killed under the guise of extrajudicial means. It is really ironical that people from Benue State heartily joined the Fulnai, Hausa, Kanuri and others to persecute a war of attrition against Ndigbo and Biafrans. Yet one of the reasons that spurred the January 15, 1966 coup pitifully points to Tiv riot.

mentored:
Which one is now the will of Nigeria


The only credible carrier the country have at the moment?


If you don’t know that the west profits from the poverty of Africa!!!!!!


You should not be online at all.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/12289782_333a77456a0a40a0ad197c53c692520c_jpeg_jpegfbdc2d955891bce7f4abdf8cfdce8c25

You captured the reality of colonialization of Africa with above post. It went further to demonstrate the inherent idiocy found in Africans. European and Americans will kill anything good out Africa under the guise of corruption. If the moneys were used for night life, there would have been no case with any justice department.

jude79:
Noooo!!! Stop, if this gani and fela were alive, their is no way people like buhari and co will near the Democratic presidential seat of Nigerian. These men are real legend, tinubu or whatever corrupt proteges you talked about only surfaced and became pretenders to the throne cos of the absence of these legends.

To make street noise is not one of the attributes of a legend. Yrai.ba peeps are known for street and public disturbance with real substance.

2020Experience:
Water Resources Bill is Done Deal, Says House Committee Chairman
September 8, 2020
•Dismisses Ortom, Soyinka, others’ opposition as ignorant

Udora Orizu in Abuja


Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Water Resources, Hon. Sada Soli, has played down the opposition to the reintroduced Water Resources Bill, saying it won’t change the determination of the legislature to pass it.

He also criticised opponents of the bill, including Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, whom he accused of speaking out of ignorance because they did not read the draft of the legislation before making comments.

The lawmaker, who represents Jibia/Kaita Federal Constituency in Katsina State, vowed that the bill, which was earlier passed by the eighth House, won’t be stepped down.


The legislation titled: ‘A Bill for An Act to Establish a Regulatory Framework for the Water Resources Sector in Nigeria, Provide for the Equitable and Sustainable Redevelopment, Management, Use and Conservation of Nigeria’s Surface Water and Groundwater Resources and for Related Matter,’ when passed into law, would bring all water sources under the control of the federal government. This has led to criticisms as various stakeholders have said the bill negates the right of Nigerians to natural resources and undermines the country’s federalism.

Prominent leaders from Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt, including Ortom and Soyinka, have kicked against the bill.

Also, socio-political organisations, including PANDEF, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have condemned the bill, saying it’s an attempt by the federal government to secure the lands around the rivers in southern Nigeria to resettle the herdsmen after the failed Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative.

Ortom had said the provisions of the bill were at variance with the Land Use Act, and that the bill was a “disguised land-grabbing legislation designed to grant pastoralists unhindered access to river basins, adjacent marine and coastal environments across the country.”

With the bill providing for the federal government to annex the banks of rivers that connect up to two states, concerns have been raised that the purpose of the promoters of the bill is to provide land for the herdsmen.

The fact that the key champions of the bill are legislators from the far north has fuelled this suspicion.

The bill’s opponents said it was curious that when Nigerians are agitating for the federal government to cede more powers to states, it’s allegedly embarking on land-grabbing.

A former senator, who spoke to THISDAY on condition of anonymity, recalled the role played by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who as the minority leader of the eighth Assembly, persuaded his colleagues to reconsider passing the bill.

“We were shocked when Akpabio appeared for ministerial screening, the distinguished Senate president told him that ‘now that you are on this side, you should go and liaise with the Minister of Water Resources to ensure that the Water Resources Bill is passed. That bill must be passed.’ When the Minister of Water Resources who was reappointed, also appeared before the Senate for the same screening, the minister said that his greatest regret in his first tenure was the non-passage of the bill. What did they see in this bill? What is special about this bill? Why the desperation to annex the waters and the land around the waters? There is a hidden agenda and sinister motive,” he stated.

A former member of the House also told THISDAY that the allegation of sinister motive on the part of the promoters of the bill should not be discountenanced.

He said: “As someone had pointed out, they want to confiscate the waterways and the surroundings and allocate to the herdsmen and claim that the government had also supported poultry farmers, maize farmers, cassava and fish farmers.

“The federal government has seized the oil resources and they want to also seize the water resources, even when the clamour for resource control is becoming increasingly popular. We understand that one of their major targets is the bank of River Benue. The suspicion is that they want to relocate herdsmen to the bank of the River Benue and other rivers in the south in the name of supporting livestock farming. They want to move herdsmen southwards because of the drying up of Lake Chad. They are using the revenue to be generated by the federal government as a disguise to hoodwink us.”

But Soli told THISDAY that the bill is in the best interest of Nigerians and that Ortom, Soyinka and every other person having misconceptions about it.

Soli said there was no provision in the bill that empowers the federal government to usurp the position of the states or local governments.

He added that the bill has nothing to do with RUGA policy.

According to him, the bill couldn’t be stepped down because the House has passed it already, adding that those who feel that there’s a motive to the bill should bring out the issues to the parliament and then amendment could be done.

“The bill can’t be stepped down because the House has passed it already; the lawmakers that are saying that they will step it down or that it was introduced illegally is because, may be, they were not there on the floor of the House when the members were given the opportunity to look at the bill not once or twice. Remember it was passed by the eighth Assembly.

”If people have something against the legislation, let them point it out and then it could be amended to conform to the wishes of Nigerians.

“If you didn’t understand something or have an idea about something, the easiest thing is that you will misconceive the whole idea.

“On the claims about the bill being RUGA in disguise, people should not display their parochial mindset or because they have a deep-seated hatred for this government policy and then they will transfer it to whatever the government places before the parliament. What has water resources got to do with RUGA? RUGA policy is a policy of the government, Water Resources Act stands alone. What is the connection?

“In the whole entire volume of that law that was passed, there was no mention of RUGA or grazing land or Fulani herdsmen. These are deep-seated hatred of government policy. This is a law that has been existing in the House and Nigeria for too long. The bill has been there since 1985. It is a combination of about four Acts; they were repealed and consolidated in one so that the water sector can have one kind of law. It’s easier to implement and determine how things should operate.

”On the claims that the bill is concentrating more powers on the federal government, it’s a lie. All those that are displaying this ignorance on the bill, didn’t read it. Let them take the bill and read it. There’s nowhere in that bill that the federal government will usurp the position of the states or local governments. It is clearly stated in Section 50 of the bill the roles the federal, state and local governments will play. Unfortunately, our leaders that are saying this didn’t read this bill.

”Water Resources Bill is important because we’ve had it before. There was Water Resources Act of 1985; there’s River Basin Development Authorities Act; there’s Water Resources Institute Act, Hydrological Integrated Agency Act and these were laws that were brought together, improved to meet up with the development in the water sector and best practices around the world.

”If people have something against the legislation, let them point it out, and then it could be amended to conform to the wishes of Nigerians. I have been asking people to tell me the section of that bill that they have a problem with. Not one could tell me. They are just speculating, saying RUGA this and that but there’s nothing talking about Rural Grazing Area in that bill. That’s a complete display of ignorance about the bill.

“But people have their suspicion because they don’t like what this government brings on board, simple. If it is something of concern, of course, people will sit down and look at it. It’s because they are lazy; they couldn’t read it to see how the principles will work and that’s why they are speculating all these shenanigans and confusing the general public.

“We need to harness, develop and protect our water resources. Or will you just allow our water resources at the mercy of other sovereignty? These are the innovations the federal government is trying to bring by putting all these legislations together and have one common legislation for the water sector so that it’s easy to manage and protect.”

Soli urged critics of the bill to lobby the legislature for the amendment of the bill.

“Let the people approach the parliament and then we do the needful. If it goes to the Senate and they decide to hold public hearings then they should, but the House has done that. There was a technical committee where all the ministries of water resources came to the National Assembly and they were part of the public hearing and all representations were brought even in the borehole drillers. The government of Benue State was also at the public hearing.

”From what I heard, the government of Benue is the only state that’s against this bill because they have a fixated mind about the RUGA thing. All the stakeholders were there before this bill was considered in 2017; so, what’s the problem? If they say the bill is against certain interests, what is the interest? Let them point it out.

“The Governor of Benue State Samuel Ortom, Wole Soyinka and others talking about this bill didn’t read it. I’m looking for an opportunity to meet these elder statesmen to educate them. They are being informed about something that does not exist. Maybe the backlash is political; maybe they feel it’s an achievement of this current government and they don’t want it. This is just an improvement of existing laws, nothing more or less,” he added.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/09/08/water-resources-bill-is-done-deal-says-house-committee-chairman/#gallery_1

Why this law when there are four laws enacted before it to do the same thing? I do not blame the northerners because the southerners have always shown their idiocy at national level. It is unfortunate the dingbats who pass as legislatures from southern Nigeria could not oppose the bill regardless political party affiliation.

Igbochief001:
Oga those days of Yoruba media propaganda is over .....show me is criticism of tinubu or shut up

Do not mind the loudmouths. I remembered Gani when he used to write legal review for Daily Times in the 70s.

wizzakosh:
No lawyer of your tribe come closer to his slippers both dead or alive. Do you people even have lawyer.

Only Igbo lawyers have ever made it to the presidency of International court and Igbo was the first to step into the court. The first Nigeria to start a legal firm.

Peacemaker5129:
cowardice is in Ibo DNA
Like ojuku like kawnu

At least, he stood up and fought. Unlike those dry leaves whose brother was killed in Ibadan and all they could do was elope into Port Novo to hide.

TheDestroyer:
They are shit scared of Northerners slaughtering them like ram since they are every where In the north like mosquitoes. Their nyash no dey stay one place

What a dunce. Who are "They" in the above silly construct? Nobody in Nigeria has monopoly on murder. Today, the northerners are everywhere in the shithole called Nigeria so let the killing spree begins.

oloriLFC:
photographer? :o He go dey climb ladder snap sha o

Most Nigerians have expired sense of intellect. Are oblivious that tall photographers usually bend or stoop to snap.

SUPERPACK:
Could still remember him from my service year in Okpoma, Yala. Very cheerful and humble, you won't even know who he is by appearance. He can never pass a corper on the way without giving them a lift or help, once we see his car from far we already know that we have gotten free ride. He was the best friend of the governor then, Senator Liyel Imoke. And lastly he can drink for Africa.

You really know the dude!!!!

I want IPOB to be fully armed. This is my position throughout my suggestion to the leaders of IPOB. Nigeria is no place where a person cries for pity. I want IPOB to be decorated with all sorts of weapons so that it can have problem with any goon in Nigeria who wants one. The last I can pray to God to grant is peaceful co-existence among ethnic groups in the shithole called Nigeria. Let us go to our different tents. Nigeria is a hypocritical mess.

fulanimafia:
The facts in the report are clear.

1. Innocent, unarmed Northerners were attacked in the East and killed by armed Eastern youths.

2. The only reason that they offered to vindicate IPOB isn't that the killers were not IPOB members or that the Eastern killings didn't happen as initially reported, but that IPOB has been proscribed.

3. However we all know IPOB have been active and holding meetings in the East, one of which degenerated into a deadly clash wherein DSS officers and some IPOB members were killed. In the aftermath of the killings, many Easterners rejected the proscription and asserted the "right" of IPOB members to gather despite their proscription, which makes this vindication on the basis of their proscription very questionable.

With this re-emphasis on their proscribed status, it is therefore expected that all security forces do everything possible to destroy completely, any remnants of the proscribed terrorist organisation to prevent any future killings of Northerners in the East. Thankfully, the case is still under investigation and I trust our respected Police Force and other security agencies to deliver.

If the IPOB perpetrated the attack so be it. If the northern region wants us to destroy Nigeria, it is a welcome idea.

Arrewa:
First of this is a fake News and media cover up!

We have gotten every information we need to know about the killing of our people in Rivers state by ipob members.

The fact that Hausas were killed and vanguard refused to publish it only to publish about the denial of the killings tells everything about the hypocrisy of vanguard.

The facts that Hausa Muslims are being butchered in Rivers state and there’s no media outrage tells you everything you need to know about the hypocrisy in this country.

Thank God that our people are gradually dominating social media.

Gone are days when a northerner will be murdered in the East and nobody will know about it.

Now we also have a voice...any single single Hausa killed in south must never be overlooked.

We value our own people just the way you value your own brothers.

We have heard that several arrest has been made... We don't care about any Arrest.
Arresting them is just for media cover up. They will soon be released.

They should just release them... We will get justice for our people.

Anybody who wants war in Nigeria, including Arrewa, shall get it in double fold. I really want disintegration of Nigeria and if war should hasten it, I say so be it because no country has ever survived two wars. The so-called herdsmen cannot challenge the IPOB. If you think Fulani can hide behind extrajudicial killing of IPOB and get away with it, you are down for a serious whipping.

Omanambala:
Who are these people and what are they speaking ?

Did you not read the post you quoted? It reads "Over 100 Igbo traditional rulers drawn from different communities across Igbo land from Anioma in Delta state to Oru of Imo state to Ngwa of Abia to Ikwerre of Rivers state to Wawa of Enugu state , gathered to protest the August 23rd killing of IPOB members in Enugu."

propsvilla3:
The Solution to this problem is in the hand of the Father. Write your will and include your Daughters in the inheritance to stop any form of drama. I can't share my properties without including my lovely daughters.

The only Will you can write which should be meant for your lovely daughters is to get married by a good man and into a good family. Whatever property you accrued why alive remains in your father's house or compound.

The so-called Supreme court of Nigeria proved to me that everything which comes out of the shithole in Nigeria is idiotic. No court of any nation on earth will want to adjudicate the vices in culture and tradition of the people unless when human life is paramount. The vices in the culture and tradition of people are usually handled by the people with increase level of development. No woman in Igbo land would be allowed to carry her father's house to her husband's home.

ijawcitizen:
Igbos are free to associate with and incorporate any igbo groups in the SS into their biafra kingdom. No one has forced the Niger Delta tag on any igbo group in the SS. The problem is you igbo want to force igbo ethnicity on non-igbos just because they speak an igboid dialect.

We Niger Deltans know ourselves and when we gather for important deliberations, we don't invite your igbo groups in the SS just as indigenous MiddleBeltans don't invite fulani in their MiddleBeltan discussions.

Argue with your breast

Ijo are nobodies in SS. It is very silly to insinuate that Ijo is landlord In the so-called SS therefore had the audacity to speak on behalf of ethnic minorities in SS. Ijo is expendable in SS.

meavox:
FOR SOUTH EAST & SOUTH SOUTH: LOWER NIGER NATION – NAME TO BE DETERMINED LATER

Dear brethren of all ethnic nations of what today is called SE and SS,

We know Arewa are far ahead of us all as they already did their own Self-determination 20 years ago when they took up Sharia in year 2000. They are only physically in this fake Union so that they can continue to rob the South and Middle Belt of our resources.

Our Yoruba brethren are moving fast. You may have heard that under their Agbekoya they are planning a peaceful symbolic gathering in Lagos to demonstrate their support for Self-determination and Oduduwa Nation on our useless “Independence” Day.

Our Middle Belt brethren are doing what they can but they are also facing Sharia-supremacist genocide and land grab by Arewa under the Fulanization agenda.

Then there is us of so-called SE and SS. By now we should be more advanced in the Self-determination that not just Igbo seek, but we ALL seek. In this modern day nations need Alliances. Look at strong Germany still needing Alliance in EU, NATO, Schengen etc. We know some of us talk of Ijaw Nation, Ogoni Nation, Igbo Nation (as Biafra) etc but there is strength in numbers. We of SE and SS are Christians and should be able to live together in this life, as we hope to do in the next life too, is that not so? Even God told us that “Two are better than one… If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up!… A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:9–12).

We should stop wasting time. That only harms us and our children because the sooner we gather TOGETHER to escape this Union called Nigeria, the better for us and especially for our children. We can sometimes be too emotional and that hinders our progress. Right now we need nothing but INTELLIGENCE to think straight!

Time is short, and we have looked around for the best way that each of the ethnic nationalities in SE and SS can each of us get our own Self-determination, and the platform is the Lower Niger Congress (LNC). LNC has already been following United Nations protocols and arranged them in 16 Stages. 13 Stages have already been done for the good and for the Self-determination of ALL the nations in SE and SS. When someone does something good for you, why would you curse them? Are we the FOOLISH Black man that White people describe? Rather, go and find out what EXACTLY Lower Niger Congress has been doing for your good! Thank them. Then thank God for them having been working for your good. Then add your own effort so that the next few Stages for you to get Self-determination are very quickly achieved. Please my brothers, let us act like adults, not like babies. A GOOD thing is here for us. So be happy and grateful!

To go to the UN, LNC used a map that Whites made of our area in 1885, at the time of Berlin Conference when Europe divided up Africa for themselves. That is why our Bloc is called “Lower Niger”. But that will NOT be the final name for our new country. ALL the ethnic nationalities will choose the name by voting. Nobody will impose their own choice of name or opinion on us.

Furthermore, the Lower Niger Bloc is divided into 6 Regions/Provinces according to ethnic nations. One Region is Ijaw. One Region is Igbo. Etc etc. We know our Igbo brethren love the name “Biafra” and they will choose the name of their Region by vote. So, their Region could in the end be called Biafra! Look at USA. A man from Texas has a flag of both USA and of Texas in front of his house. You meet him and he tells you “I am Texan”. He doesn’t say, he is American, he says Texan. So too in our new country of SE and SS together, we can describe ourselves by the name of our Region!

Very importantly, LNC has worked out an Alliance with Oduduwa and Middle Belt. So if we have businesses, property, assets in those two Alliance Blocs they remain safe and intact. It’s a bit like Germany being in EU.

Please my brethren of SE and SS. Let’s stop wasting time and instead gather around LNC’s UN-based Strategy. Yoruba are ahead of us. Let us get serious and act like grown men. If you are Igbo, you can get “Biafra” within the Lower Niger Bloc, so why waste time. Time wasting means spending more time with Arewa, which none of us want. Instead of guessing, go to the LNC website and Facebook site to get the FACTS!

Time is short. Arewa are fighting hard to keep this diabolical entrapment and fake Union called Nigeria over us. Our children MUST BE SET FREE! Let us be determined on getting that asap.

Google Lower Niger Congress or use links:

https://web.facebook.com/lowernigercongress

https://www.lnc-usa.org/blog/lnc-mnn-notice-board/

Please broadcast to all ethnic nationalities of SE and SS. The time for united action is NOW!

The above stream of thought is a silly joke. In the absence of idiotic Nigeria, I want Republic of Igbo land. It will be Igboland for Igbo as England is for English.

ijawcitizen:
Just like Middle belt is separate from the North, so is Niger Delta separate from Igboland.

You can not mischievously merge SS/SE together under spurious grounds while seeing the wisdom and objectivity of separating North and MiddleBelt.

Use the same insight and wisdom to separate Igboland and Niger Delta as two separate entities but part of the multilateral alliance involving biafra, MiddleBelt, oduduwa and Niger Delta where our investments shall be secured within these territories.

This igbo obsession and diabolic sense of entitlement to the Niger Delta is not different from the fulani demonic sense of entitlement to the middle belt, therefore must be destroyed too.

The bolded showed the depth of your intellectual laziness. Did you care to investigate the extent of Igbo land? I do not subscribe to your silly SS or SE crap. The SS and SE idiotic nomenclatures are product of moronic Nigeria. There are goons in Nigeria I would rather die than have them as compatriots again if the opportunity arises. I want Republic of Igbo land. The so-called Lower Niger Congress can even join Oduduwa, I do not give a ratass.

If the tortured decease had a concealed weapon and discharged it with deadly consequence during the melee, would Nigerian navy have the audacity to say the ratings were not on official duty?

stephanie11:
The United States Department of Justice has alleged that billions of naira stolen from the Presidential Amnesty Programme by a former head of the office, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, were transferred to bank accounts in the United States where they were laundered and used to purchase airplanes to start Air Peace as well as luxury homes and vehicles.

Kuku served as Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and was Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Office under President Goodluck Jonathan, who served from 2010-2015.

Air Peace, which was launched in 2013, is Nigeria’s largest carrier with a fleet size of about 23 airplanes. The revelation by the US DOJ clearly poses multiple challenges and risks for the airline if the US government successfully prosecutes the charges of money laundering in court.

THEWILL can report exclusively that the US DOJ which has been conducting a discreet investigation into Kuku and Air Peace, according to our sources with knowledge of development, formally wrote to the Nigerian government under the Treaty for Mutual Legal Assistance between both countries and asked for the transfer of the case files of investigations conducted on Mr. Kuku, who coincidentally was deported from the United States last year by the Department of Homeland Security over immigration fraud, Allen Onyema, the airlines’ CEO, Prince Chibudom Nwuche, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, who allegedly laundered at least $8m from the Amnesty programme and other individuals and companies linked to Onyema.

The United States government describes Mr. Onyema as Kuku’s business partner, who laundered at least $44m through US bank accounts.

The DOJ in another letter about three weeks ago asked Nigeria for bank account records of “Air Peace Limited, Ifechukwu Allen Athan Onyema, Tarere Vivenne Kuku alias Nnamani Chika Vivienne, All Times Peace Media, Every Child Limited, Foundation of Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria and Allen Onyema and Company, Global Spectrum Energy Services Plc” amongst others.

“Records should be for the period between April 1, 2010, and the present…” the DOJ said in the letter seen by THEWILL.

In November last year, the United States DOJ in a statement announced Mr. Onyema’s indictment and charge for 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.

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

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

Robert J. Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division commented on the indictment, “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.”

“This case is a prime example of why IRS-CI seeks to partner and leverage its expertise in an effort to thwart those seeking to exploit our nation’s financial system,” said Thomas J. Holloman, IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Office.

“With the importance of our banking system to the movement of money around the world, those attempting to use intricate schemes to commit bank fraud through the use of falsified documents and other means should know that the odds are now heavily stacked against them as law enforcement is combining its talents to protect the sanctity and integrity of the nation’s financial system.”

“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. “I’m proud to be part of a team of law enforcement agencies that come together to identify and attack criminals that attempt to profit from the exploitation of our nation’s financial systems.”

According to U.S. Attorney Pak, the indictment, and other information presented in court: Onyema, 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.

It said 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.

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, the DOJ said.

“Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, 56, of Lagos, Nigeria, and Ejiroghene Eghagha, 37, of Lagos, Nigeria, 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.”



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I can say unequivocally the so-called fiscal laundry law is a weapon against developing countries. The Europeans and Americans have the technological know-how for socio-economic development which Africans and other developing countries need. If the moneys were for non-development project in Africa, the so-called Europeans and Americans moral police would look the other way. However if the so-called Laundered money is meant for solid economic program in Africa, the moral policemen of the world shall be awake on duty. Whether the amount of money transferred is more than the stipulated limit required by the USA government or not, it does not make any difference if the said capital is channeled to the good intentions it meant to accomplish. The corporation is a Nigerian outfit and doing legal business. This nonsense is one of the idiotic Barak Obama's scorched earth policies against Goodluck Jonathan's administration. I had rather take Air Peace than to listen to the crap of transfer of money over the official stipulated amount - Laundering. Who cares if the Air Peace operator over drafted or under drafted in the remittance of fund for his business?

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