By Ambassador Lilian ONOH.
During a recent conversation with a non-Nigerian friend who possessed knowledge about Nigeria, Nigerians, and Geoffrey Onyeama, I was given the aforementioned title. We were discussing Geoffrey Onyeama’s deceptive online campaign, where he falsely claimed that I had been dismissed due to the alleged misuse of $70,000.00 from the Capital Account of my former embassy. Geoffrey Onyeama asserted that the High Commission of Nigeria in Namibia had utilized the money to purchase a new Mercedes Benz, thereby depriving him of those funds. However, as the Ambassador, I, Lilian Onoh thwarted this attempt to misappropriate the money, just as he had overseen the theft of $180,000.00 prior to my appointment. Consequently, he, Geoffrey Onyeama now seeks to extort that amount from me as retribution for foiling his plans. His failure to gain access to the funds that he had concealed in my embassy for three years has driven him to engage in a fabricated online campaign to seek revenge and coerce me into “settling” by giving him approximately $100,000.00 to make the issue disappear. This situation is an unfortunate manifestation of Nzuzu/Iberiberism, a regrettable state of mind.
Only a person of unsound mind would dare to accuse the government of misusing its own funds to acquire a vehicle for official purposes – a car that I have never possessed or utilized, and that has been in the possession of the new Ambassador in Namibia for the past two years. Additionally, only an intellectually impaired individual would neglect to familiarize themselves with the definition of the term “misappropriate,” thus revealing the extent of their longstanding mental issues that they had attempted to conceal for years with their repeated claims of “I Am Not Aware” mantra.
If he had learnt the meaning of the word, he would have known that in a couple of weeks, he will be the number one person in the line for EFCC detention and Maiduguri jail for his 8 year Estacode Fraud during which he misappropriated approximately $2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS) in excess Estacode allowances and “Contingency”.
This is because as a Minister, he collected $900 PER DAY ESTACODE and on average, traveled 10-20 days per month. But under Public Service Rules, if an Embassy or Host Government paid for his hotel, transportation, and other hospitality, he was only entitled to 25% of $900. But this “Oga Misappropriation” constantly collected the full $900 per day and all our Embassies were compelled to pay for him and his often questionable entourage and their even more questionable expenses. Based on his travel days over the past 8 years, Geoffrey Onyeama has scammed the Government of around $2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION DOLLARS or N1.5 BILLION) with his Estacode Fraud. That is ESTABLISHED CRIMINALITY so he cannot scream “defamation” to try to shut me up.
But more ridiculous is Geoffrey Onyeama trying to collect the legitimate $212.50 apiece for two Domestic Servants sent by the Government of Nigeria to Namibia by calling this LEGITIMATE, meager allowance for Domestic Servants “misappropriation”. This level of petty greed is so low that it is dirty. Disgusting, in fact. It is a virulent strain of greed so toxic that it is beyond Western Medicine. Even Ebola is less virulent. He needs pity.
It is no longer a secret that his long-standing psychiatric challenges have become more difficult for him to manage over the years. I have also been constrained by extended family members from revealing the full details of his mental problems. Thus, I can only appeal to him to stop exposing his mental issues with his actions and then go crying to family friends, and relatives each time I respond to his lunacy.
While I sympathize with his psychiatric problems, I do not agree with those who think that it excuses his vicious conduct and his psychotic obsession with getting revenge because my family rejected him as an In-Law 37 years ago. It is pitiful and frankly insane. We still do not want him as part of our family and he should simply move on instead of using Government apparatus to try to exact revenge and salvage his shredded non-existent pride.
I also don’t think it is right that he is using the Ministry’s media budget to wage his psychotic internet extortionary defamation scam and pay lawyers to keep sending threatening letters to media houses to stop publishing my rebuttals of his lies.
A sane man would have realized that the zeal with which he keeps trying to gag media houses and stop them from publishing my responses to his mentally deficient lies is the best evidence that he lied and that what I am saying is true. He doesn’t even seem to grasp the fact that in mere days he will be out of office when this Administration comes to an end and then many will throw off the gag he placed on them and reveal the full extent of his perfidious existence in a tsunami wave that may send him to Enugu Psychiatric Hospital.
It is still shocking that Geoffrey Onyeama, who is almost 70 years old, continues to behave in such a petty, infantile manner that any real man would find repulsive. He knows why my family kicked him out 37 years ago. He should accept his deficiencies and move on because nothing will make us accept him. He has shown the world exactly why he was unfit to be our In-Law and confirmed that we were right to send him packing.
As for his lawyers, they ought to know that defamation is specific, and trying to gag me in advance is stupidity. Sending Advance Threat Letters to media houses rubbishes the education that was given to them and brings disrepute to the Nigerian Law School. It is also an admission of fear and defeat. One would think this was basic knowledge for lawyers!
I end by reiterating that I, Lilian Onoh, am solely responsible for what I write and the media outlets that publish this article are not liable for its content.
In less than two weeks, the Cabinet will be dissolved, and those cowering before this pitiful Iberibe might be the same people sent to arrest him, Willie Obiano style.
Let’s hope that the DSS does a proper background check on the next Minister of Foreign Affairs so that we don’t have someone who is known as “I Am Not Aware” roaming the corridors of the Ministry again.
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