Ex-Bayelsa Gov Diepriye Alamieyeseigha Bags 2 Years Imprisonment for Corrupt Enrichment and Money Laundering;

Fortunately,Ex-Taraba Gov Jolly Nyame was Granted Bail, while Ex-Enugu Gov Chimaroke Nnamani Is Arraigned in Lagos.

It's a pity most of these Governor's are thieves , let's wait and see
what happens to Kalu.

Cheers!

Big Boy. 2 years imprisonment. Not bad. E try small.

Whatch out for the selective spin doctors

they will ask why Alams was given 2 years and Tafa had just 6months, as if their cases was determined on the same day by the same judge.

we are here:

thats selective: it should be clear what how many years you get for stealing X amount.

anyway, we are not impressed.

We want to see MR FIX answer his N300billion to fix ROADS.

Until then, they are only going after OBJ/PDP enemies as deterrant for future Govs not to go against OBJ: PDP BOT.

This is how Hilter started: Saying Jews were guilty for Germany problem.

Mind you Alams didnt steal, he simply committed laundering and embezzlement!

As usual, Nigerians would start bitching. blah blah opposition, blah blah selective justice, blah blah PDP . . . . . . .

He may not do any jail time, people do not forget he has been in jail or detention for over a year, that will be considered already served time. I read some place Jonathan had a private meeting with ALAM to end this ordeal

is he still very sick

Where is the link to the story? he pleaded guilty does not mean he bags two years.

Mamajama:

He may not do any jail time, people do not forget he has been in jail or detention for over a year, that will be considered already served time. I read some place Jonathan had a private meeting with ALAM to end this ordeal

No mind Jonathan, he never contribute on anything of Nigerian interest. All him know na South South, him be VP of Nigeria or South South.

If he gets two years it's chicken change for him O! Alams is a big boy. How can they try to reduce his level with ordinary 2 years?

Am not surprise wit d outcome of d mata. dis goes to show dat our government is nt yet REAL SERIOUS n fightin corruption, hw can d jugde sentence him to jst 2years in prison. i will nt b surprise if d duration he has used n prison is reduce 4rm dis 2 years. nigerian politicians will nt learn anythin from dis small sentencin of BIG CORRUPT LEACERS.

@mamajama

He may not do any jail time, people do not forget he has been in jail or detention for over a year, that will be considered already served time. I read some place Jonathan had a private meeting with ALAM to end this ordeal

You may be right - even in places like US, time spent in detention do routinely count towards time served. In any case, its a positive development
(I am sure the usual ra-ra crowds won't be satisfied, too bad). Whats more important to me however, is that the EFCC make every attempt to seize
the affected assets (if not done already). If we can get to a point whereby illegally acquired assets are re-possessed and the people involved put
behind bars even if for a few years, we may be successful in checking the trend of large scale looting that has now come to symbolize governance
in Nigeria. For all their bravado, I am sure Kalu and the other clowns are wishing they were somewhere else.

KUDOS TO RIBADU and his team, Now I think we should go after ATIKU and IBB, if we can get 10% of this looters asset, It will be beneficial to millions of Nigerians.

I will not cry wolf abt selective justice so that the current detained governors should be released.

I will cry wolf abt selective justice to dmand that all the governors and more besides be detained as well.

doyin13 detained on what grounds? cases are won on facts and allegations.

@Mamajama

some people just want to see rich people detain. It is the sadistic nature inherent in some men. They would enjoy seeing Bill Gates in Kuje Prison.

Nuhu Ribadu is one of the best things to happen to Nigeria in the past 17 years

As much as I like justice to me this is a disgrace to the state for electing someone like t his that was ridicule out of office in handcuffs.  As a child growing up in JOS, I remember the 1st time I saw SOLOMON LAR and GAMBARI the king at a an independent day parade.  they exhume what a character or what any aspiring young kid should look up to as a role model.  These days we have governors that are all criminals, will this prosecution sent a message to the newly elected officials? or this is just a drop in the pot?

NuhuRibadu:

Nuhu Ribadu is one of the best things to happen to Nigeria in the past 17 years

What has been happening to Ribadu,he has been very quiet of late ,I heard thru the grafevine that he has helped himself to some of the loot too and now his fingers are burnt.

Might be light sentence, but still its a welcome development .

Ribadu want his actions to speak louder than his words. That is why he kept quiet as he do justice to the thieves,

He is actually talking though, the actions of his men.

only 2 years,

and with good behaviour they may let him off in a few months?

2 years is too short.
a 2 year old baby is still wearing diapers and suckling his mother,this is no punishment

babyosisi:

2 years is too short.
a 2 year old baby is still wearing diapers and suckling his mother,this is no punishment

May be you can give him a summary sentence by getting your AK47 ready by 2 years' time

PeeDaVinci:

May be you can give him a summary sentence by getting your AK47 ready by 2 years' time

OSANOBUA!1.

militia can do that for him.
She's the area girl of nairaland

babyosisi
If she catch u she go break ur head. Thank God dat d 2 of u are ladies!

2 cheeky ladies

their face off wont be a bad watch

He will only spend 2 weeks

Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha, who was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday for money laundering and corrupt enrichment, is to spend only two weeks in jail. Sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told P.M.News this morning that Alams will spend only two weeks in Ikoyi Prisons because he had already spent almost 18 months in detention in the course of his trial.

He was jailed two years on each of the six-count charge brought against him by the EFCC and since the jail term was to run concurrently, he would have spent only two years in jail.

Besides, since 9 months is equivalent to one calendar year in jail, Alams, who was arrested by EFCC operatives and whisked away to Abuja on 9 December 2005 shortly after he was impeached by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, has already spent 17 months and two weeks in detention, and has just two weeks to remain in gaol.

Shortly before he was sentenced yesterday by the trial judge, Justice Mohammed Shuaibu, the former Air Force Chief, who spent 19 years in the force, said if he was much younger, he would not have pleaded guilty in exchange for the light sentence passed on him by the trial judge.

Alamieyeseigha also declared that he was never impeached and lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for sending soldiers to overrun the Bayelsa State House of Assembly in the bid to remove him from office.

The former governor, who spoke in the open court minutes before he was jailed, also narrated his ordeal since he was arrested. “I have gone through the shadow of death. I have been through hell since I was arrested.”

He added that he was kept among mad people by the London Metropolitan police who arrested him in 2005 at Heathrow Airport and when he started bleeding inside the detention facility, he was sent back to Nigeria by the British authorities; insinuating that he never jumped bail as was widely reported by the media.

Given the plea-bargain he entered with EFCC, he will forfeit assets worth billions of naira. Some of the assets include Chelsea Hotel in Abuja, property in the United Kingdom, about 1.5 million British pound sterling stake in Santolina Investment Corporation in the United Kingdom, V8A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa, among others.

Counsel to EFCC, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, in the course of yesterday’s trial, had urged Justice Shuaibu to order the forfeiture of Alamieyeseigha’s assets to the government in order that the commission would sell them and put the proceeds in a consolidated account which would accrue to the Bayelsa State government.

Consequently, the judge upheld Rotimi’s argument.

However, Chief T.J. Omonigbo Okpoko (SAN), counsel to Alamieyeseigha, in an allocutus before the court, pleaded leniency for his client.

According to him, “wether good or bad, right or wrong, the fact of the governor having served in public office should be taken into account by the trial judge.”

This is a sick joke. 2yrs for all the evil he commited. We are still not serious in this our country. Do you actually think that 2 yrs serves as any deterent? I have often said it that Nigerian's are too easyly please. Here is another proof of premature hard-on, when there is no action in sight.

Anyone caught with state funds must be made to apy a heavy price. This I think is a blatant slap on the face off every well meaning Nigerian

where's militia?
We need your services
Get ready with an apple,alamesigha will be out in 2 weeks

better stll get him to wear an item of female clothing,he'll never forget.

I hear the man loves ladies wears like no man business,offer him a thong that can grow sharp edges at the touch of a button and give him the wedgie of his riverine life