Air Peace: Lawyer Wants AGF To Stop Onyema’s Extradition To U.S.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to bar the Federal Government from processing or extraditing the Chairman of Air Peace, Mr. Allen Onyema on the basis of the indictment on money laundering charges slapped on him by United States authorities.

The action by a constitutional lawyer, Mr. Johnmary Jideobi was on the surface without the support of the accused, Onyema.

Onyema had on the emergence of the allegations last weekend vowed to present himself before United States authorities to defend himself.

The plaintiff, a human rights crusader claimed in his affidavit of claims to have known Onyema from childhood being from the same place and that he did not know him to be a criminal.

In the suit in which the Attorney General and Minister of Justice is the only respondent, the plaintiff is asking that he be barred from processing any request for the extradition of the accused to the United States.

Among his prayers are that:

“A declaration of this Honourable Court that on the authority of Diamond Bank PLC vs. Opara (2018) LPELR-43907(SC) the Federal Government of Nigeria and or any of its agencies with prosecutorial powers as represented by the Respondent herein cannot derogate from the constitutional right of ALLEN IFECHUKWU ATHAN ONYEMA, Esq. to freedom of movement by attempting to forcefully expel and or extradite ALLEN him from the shores of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to any other country of the world for the purposes of any criminal trial whose substance arose from underlying civil aviation contracts.

“A declaration of this Honourable Court that on the authority of Diamond Bank PLC vs. Opara (2018) LPELR-43907(SC) the Federal Government of Nigeria and or any of its agencies with prosecutorial powers as represented by the Respondent herein cannot give effect to any extradition request from any country of the world in so far as the ingredients or constituent facts of the indictment and or charges underlying the said request are traceable to or related with or arose from diverse civil aviation contracts entered into by ALLEN IFECHUKWU ATHAN ONYEMA, Esq. through his duly registered companies with other duly registered companies in other jurisdictions especially in the      United States of America.

“An order of this Honourable Court perpetually barring the Federal Government of Nigeria and or any of its agencies with prosecutorial powers as represented by the Respondent herein either by themselves, their servants, privies, assigns or any other person or authority acting either in concert with them, on their behalf or under them from giving effect to any extradition request from any country of the world in so far as the ingredients or constituent facts of the indictment and or charges underlying the said request are traceable to or related with or arose from diverse civil aviation contracts entered into by ALLEN IFECHUKWU ATHAN ONYEMA, Esq. through his duly registered companies with other duly registered companies in other jurisdictions especially in the    United States of America.

“An order of this Honourable Court perpetually barring the Federal Government of Nigeria and or any of its agencies with prosecutorial powers as represented by the Respondent herein either by themselves, their servants, privies, assigns or any other person or authority acting either in concert with them, on their behalf or under them from attempting to use or seeking to use harass, threaten to arrest, inviting and or arresting the Applicant in relation with the civil contract he mutually entered into through his duly registered companies with other aviation companies especially in the United States of America or anything connected thereto.

As well as,  “An order of this Honourable Court barring the Federal Government of Nigeria and or any of its agencies with prosecutorial powers as represented by the Respondent herein either by themselves, their servants, privies, assigns or any other person or authority acting either in concert with them, on their behalf or under them from giving effect to any extradition request from any country of the world especially the United States of America anchored on Exhibit US1 or any other indictment or charges reflecting in substance similar facts as contained in the said Exhibit US1”.

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