Former
Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is
dead. He reportedly died of cardiac arrest at the University of Port Harcourt
Teaching Hospital, after slipping into coma two days ago and was placed on life
support
The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Esueme
Dan-Kikili, who confirmed the death to Channels Television, said that the
death of the former governor was a great loss to the Ijaw ethnic group.
There were reports during the week that the British
Government was determined to resurrect an outstanding case of money laundering
against the former governor and had requested
for his extradition to London.
Alamieyeseigha, who was facing money laundering charges,
jumped bail and returned to Nigeria and has since then refused to answer
summons for trial to continue.
According to his Wikipedia page, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was
born on November 16, 1952 in Amassoma, Ogboin North Local Government Area,
Bayelsa State and had his secondary school education at the Bishop Dimeari
Grammar School, Yenagoa.
He joined the Nigerian Defence Academy as a Cadet Officer in
1974, and was enlisted in the Nigerian Air Force, where he served in the
department of Logistics and Supply.
Before retiring from the Air Force in 1992 as a Squadron
Leader, he had served in Enugu, Markurdi, Kaduna and Ikeja.
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was Governor of Bayelsa State in
Nigeria from May 29, 1999 to December 9, 2005. He was impeached on
allegations of corruption.
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