The Federal Government of Nigeria have signed an agreement with the United States, for the repatriation of $954,000 loot of late Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.
US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, announced the development at a press briefing on Thursday afternoon in Abuja.
Leonard said the official salary of the former governor of Bayelsa State, during his tenure as a public servant from 1999 to his impeachment in 2005 did not match the said amount.
She said, however, he accumulated millions of dollars through abuse of office, money laundering.
On July 26, 2007, Alamieyeseigha pleaded guilty before a Nigerian court to six charges and was sentenced to two years in prison on each charge; however, because the sentences were set to run concurrently and the time was counted from the point of his arrest nearly two years before the sentences, his actual sentence was relatively short.
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who was his deputy governor then later became the state governor granted him pardon, a move that triggered backlash.