The Nigerian government has finally reacted to the $20m fraud allegation leveled against the Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema.
Naija News recalls that on Friday, November 22, 2019, the US Department of Justice indicted Onyema for bank fraud and money laundering.
The businessman was accused of moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase of airplanes.
Although, Onyema has denied the allegations against him, US government has issued an arrest warrant for the 56-yr-old businessman.
However reacting to the indictment of Allen Onyema, the personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on social media, Lauretta Onochie, said that the American government only goes after lawbreakers.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Onochie asked Onyema to go “and face his accusers”.
1. I do not understand what Pres. @MBuhari has to do with Mr. Onyema of Airpeace being indicted and charged in the USA.
According to our Attorney General, the Fed. Govt. has not even been informed of the situation.
American laws go after those who BREAK them
What a man sows….— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) November 24, 2019
She lamented the manner in which funds meant for the Niger Delta amnesty programme were allegedly diverted into private pockets.
Onyema had worked as a consultant to the presidential amnesty programme when Kingsley Kuku was special adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta affairs.
4. We are smarter now than ever before. Gradually, the scales of tribalism, religious affinity and political loyalty, are falling off our eyes and being replaced by Nigerianism.
Nigerians are not keen on tales by the moonlight.
Let him Return to America and face his accusers!— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) November 24, 2019
source https://www.naijanews.com/2019/11/25/federal-government-reacts-to-us-fraud-allegation-against-allen-onyema/
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