The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has applauded the indictment of Air Peace Chairman, Allen Onyema, in a $21m fraud by the United States of America.

Onyema was indicted by a federal grand jury in the US on November 19 on multiple charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering and faces a jail term of 105 years if found guilty.

MEND posited that the Niger Delta amnesty program was built on a fraudulent foundation from inception, starting with the grossly exaggerated figure of militants put at 30,000, a figure that was a key element in perpetuating the fraud, which has continued up until this day.

The group stated that Onyema heavily benefitted from the amnesty program along with a host of others, who were aware of the fraud.

The group said, “Kingsley Kuku, the then Special Adviser on the Niger Delta Amnesty Program, Allen Onyema and Ejiroghene Eghagha are key figures in the monumental fraud which shortchanged the region and insulted those who paid the ultimate price for a better Niger Delta region.

“But there are several others down the chain such as senators and members of the House of Representatives (who received kickbacks, well aware that the budget for the Amnesty Office was heavily padded), as well as ex-militant commanders who knew fully well that the number of militants in the entire region couldn't have been more than 2,000 and the excess figure of 28,000 put out were ghosts, but conspired to keep silent.

“We know this as a fact and when compared to the number of weapons that were submitted, would it have meant that 28,000 men were fighting with sticks and oars?”

MEND also condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for not investigating Onyema and waiting for the US to do its work.

“It is a shame and indictment on the Economic and Financial Crime Commission that they had to wait until Allen Onyema, a greedy conflict entrepreneur was exposed by the FBI before speaking out.

“Air Peace and every known asset belonging to Onyema and the fixed assets of every known person involved in duping the Niger Delta region through the amnesty fraud have become legitimate targets for attack.

NwaAmaikpe:




I stand with Allen Onyema.
How about you?

candidtalk:


Over to our Igbo brethrens.Your 'brothers' from the SS, the ones you always claim by force, have now spoken. Seems they share the views of the rest of the world about Onyeama.

Abi amala Yerooba and Aboki Fulani have hijacked MEND same as they did the FBI and American DOJ?

NwaAmaikpe:




I stand with Allen Onyema.
How about you?

johnmartus:
105 jail term. Please serve him better. By now federal government should start commence how to nationalize his belongings. That air peace should rename first. Niger delta airlines.

Vanhooijdonk:

If they nationalize it, that is the end of the airline and it will end up bankrupt. If government try to sell it one, one of the fantastically corrupt politicians in APC will buy the airline through the backdoor.
Onyema should sell the airline to Jim Ovia or Tony Elumelu.

johnmartus:
105 jail term. Please serve him better. By now federal government should start commence how to nationalize his belongings. That air peace should rename first. Niger delta airlines.

izzou:
Thumbs up to Igbo business men like

Innocent Chukwuma
Cosmos Maduka
Vincent Obianodo
G. Okeke

These are men that showed us how to be billionaires through decades of hard work.

Air peace is a plus for Nigeria. But if it was born out of fraudulent schemes, then it can burn to blazes for all I care

Another fraudster about to bite the dust

RonaldoVido:
Every rich man once had a PAY DAY. It depends on how big your pay check was.

Ask Ibeto, he once said, " There is no business as profitable as Cement ".. yet it's one man controlling same in Nigeria.

So Onyema's pay check was big.

Nigerian youths, your future is in your votes. Vote in intelligent leaders to create millionaire opportunities for Nigerian youths.

Vanhooijdonk:

You don't know the source of the capital they used to start their business. Who is is legit billionaire free of corruption and government funds in Nigeria? I can't think of any, they have all washed the dirty money clean and now have legitimate businesses.

qualityovenbake:
And the dirty secrets of Allen Onyema continues.


Though I don't regard Sahara Reporters as a reliable source

izzou:


These men have histories

Maduka is the sole agent for various European car makers. If he was fraudulent, they'ld have backed out?

Or is it Innoson, that moved from motorcycles assembling to plastics manufacturing and then IVM?

Or is Vincent (The young) or GUO you want to say are fraudulent?

Ibeto group acquired an American company that's listed on the NYSE. Why isn't FBI looking for him?

There are legit businessmen out there, and Allen is about to make us all look like fraudsters

Davidflight:
It's getting clearer that all these shenanigans were just a political ploy to dig out an end.

MEND?

The very dirty, tremendously corrupt MEND?

kayfra:
Behind every successful man. There is a crime.

Onyeama, though I like what he did recently with the SA airlifts. If he is proven to have done the crime, he has to serve the time.

johnmartus:
105 jail term. Please serve him better. By now federal government should start commence how to nationalize his belongings. That air peace should rename first. Niger delta airlines.