Diepreye Alamieyeseigha

Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha ( born November 16, 1952) is a Nigerian politician. He was Governor of Bayelsa and was arrested on suspicion of money laundering in London. He is now detained in Nigeria.

Governor

Alamieyeseigha was a civil servant before joining in 1974 the Nigerian Air Force, which in 1992 he left again. His opponent in the gubernatorial election in 1999 accused him of being voluntarily resigned from the military to not be fired for fraud. As a member of the People's Democratic Party, he was on 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005 Governor of the oil-rich state of Bayelsa.

Arrest

On December 15, during a trip to England, was arrested at London Heathrow Airport Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, citing evidence of the Nigerian Commission for Economic and Financial Crime ( EFCC ). He was suspected of up to 11 million euros misappropriates government funds and to have acquired an oil refinery in Ecuador and several residences abroad. The British police issued in London about 2.4 million euros sure possession of Alamieyeseigha, however, denies.

Return to Nigeria

After Diepreye Alamieyeseigha had been released on bail for two months, he fled with false papers and allegedly dressed as a woman from England and appeared on 21 September 2005 and again in Nigeria. The inhabitants Bayelsas hailed him as a resistance fighter against the Nigerian government, which denies them the most revenue from oil production in the Niger Delta. When he was expelled from the People's Democratic Party and dismissed by the Parliament of Bayelsa his office and thus lost its political immunity, he was arrested again on 9 December 2005. Rebel organizations such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta since then demand his release.

Swell

• Military person (Nigeria )
• Governor (Nigeria )
• Bayelsa
• Nigerian
• Born in 1952
• Man