Ijaw youths accuse FG, British govt of complicity in Alamieyeseigha's death

(Nigeria) The Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, has accused President Mohammadu Buhari led Federal Government and the British government on complicity in the death of the first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.
The Ijaw youths also expressed concern over what they described as the rising cases of political persecution, threats of arrest and selective anti-corruption drive of the Buhari government against leaders of the South South.
The youths said though the Ijaw people from the South-South region had expressed total support for the anti-graft disposition of the Buhari administration, they were becoming worried over its selective approach.
The Ijaw youths said that they wee putting together a legal team to file a suit against the Federal Government and the government of the United Kingdom over the perceived political genocide against the people of the region.
President of the IYC, Udengs Eradiri, alleged that the planned extradition of Alamieyeseigha to the United Kingdom for a renewed trial after 10 years that he was tried, jailed and pardoned, worsened his ailment which allegedly led to his eventual death on October 10.
He said Alamieyeseigha, while he was alive, was jailed as a result of his stand on resource control and fiscal federalism and not corruption as claimed.
"While he (Alamieyeseigha) was in jail, he was not jailed because of corruption but because he stood for resource control and fiscal federalism and that the former President Olusegun Obasanjo was against that and decided to make him a scapegoat.
"As for the current federal government, the Buhari administration is vindictive and it is all out to silence the South-East and South-South region.
"Let it be known that Alamieyeseigha did not jump bail in the UK as was rumoured. It was the United Kingdom authorities that put him in a flight and flew him to Nigeria.
"If he had jumped bail, and actually defied the British security apparatus, one of the best security agencies in the world, what was the action of the UK to prove that he jumped bail.
"Did they set up any commission of inquiry to prove that Alamieyeseigha jumped bail? It was all their ploy to bring down Alamieyeseigha because he stood for fiscal federalism."
The IYC, he said, will not rest on its oars until the issue of Alamieyeseigha was followed to its logical conclusion.
On the travail of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, the IYC president alleged that she was being haunted because she stopped oil blocs that some northerners shared among themselves.
Eradiri, who also spoke on oil theft in the Niger Delta region condemned the criminal act describing it as crime against humanity.