Alamieyeseigha biography template
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| Diepreye Alamieyeseigha | |
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| Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (right) with U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Howard F. Jeter (left), July 6, 2001 | |
| Governor of Bayelsa | |
In office 29 May 1999 – 9 December 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Obi |
| Succeeded by | Goodluck Jonathan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 November 1952 Amassoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria |
| Died | 10 October 2015(2015-10-10) (aged 62) Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria |
Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha (DSP) (16 November 1952 – 10 October 2015) was a Nigerian politician who was Governor of Bayelsa State in Nigeria[1] from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005.
Background[]
Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was born on 16 November 1952 in Amassoma, Ogboin NorthLocal Government Area, Bayelsa State. He attended the Bishop Dimeari Grammar School, Yenagoa. He joined the Nigerian Defence Academy as a Cadet Officer in 1974, then joined the Nigerian Air Force, where he served in the department of Logistics and Supply. He held various air force positions in Enugu, Makurdi, Kaduna and Ikeja. Alamieyeseigha retired from the air force in 1992 as a Squadron Leader.[2]
After leaving the air force he became the Sole Administrator of Pabod Supplies Port Harcourt. Later he became Head of Budget, Pla
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Ethnicity—A Retrospective Glance
1On 11 December 1998, 500 youths from 40 different clans, together with representatives from 25 political organisations from an “ethnic” group in the Niger Delta known as the Ijaw, gathered together in Kaiama, a town in the Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area (lga) of Bayelsa state. After prayers, speeches and much deliberation, delegates issued the Kaiama Declaration—a ten-point statement demanding that all oil companies leave “Ijaw land” by 30 December 1998, pending the resolution by the Nigerian federal government of questions relating to the ownership and control of petroleum resources and political autonomy for the Ijaw. Between 29 and 30 December 1998, protest marches and demonstrations took place throughout Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states and were met with the full weight of the Nigerian military. Up to 15,000 soldiers and two warships were sent to Bayelsa by the then military government of General Abusalami Abubakar and a state of emergency declared. An estimated 200 people died during the events of late 1998 and early 1999, whilst many more were injured, tortured and raped.
2Around the same time, violence prevented local government, State Assembly and governorship elections scheduled for 5 December and 9 January, from taking pla
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Movement for representation Emancipation bear witness the River Delta
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