By OLA AGBAJE
Thursday, August 2, 2007

Alamieyeseigha, according to Joseph Eva, the National Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG), left the country yesterday evening. He was recently deported from Dubai where he had been taken by EFCC for proper medical treatment.

While speaking with Daily Sun on the ex-governor’s trip, the Ijaw group leader also called on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to go after other ex-governors in the Niger Delta who he accused of using the derivation money meant for the development of the people to organise and sponsor cultists in the zone for the purpose of election.

He urged the EFCC to ensure that the money recovered from Alamieyeseigha is returned to the Bayelsa people for the purpose of educating the youths and the children.

Expressing disappointment that EFCC has remained silent on other former governors who he blamed for the woes of the people in the oil rich region, Eva said: “Ribadu must ensure that other former governors who looted their states and diverted derivation funds to sponsor cultism should not escape justice. The blood of those killed by the cultists put together by those former governors will be on Ribadu and his team if they fail to apprehend and prosecute them for siphoning the derivation money across the globe.
“They must not escape justice and whatever money recovered from them should be spent on the people.”