{"id":48856,"date":"2016-04-28T13:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48856"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:16:48","slug":"fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;As Diezani&#8217;s Son, Ugonna Declared Wanted<br \/>\nThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the managing<br \/>\ndirector of Fidelity Bank, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo in connection with the $115<br \/>\nmillion slush fund routed through the bank by former Petroleum Resources<br \/>\nMinister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to buy votes for Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>Also detained is the Fidelity Bank\u2019s head of operation, Martin Izuogbe.<\/p>\n<p>The $115million was contributed by several oil companies, including<br \/>\nDiezani directly handing over $25million, all converted into N23. 3<br \/>\nbillion to buy INEC officials to rig the 2015 election for Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the former resident electoral commissioner for Rivers state,<br \/>\nGesila Khan unlocked the gate to the scandal, which has also led the EFCC<br \/>\nto launch a manhunt for Ugonna Madueke, the former minister\u2019s son.<br \/>\nAlso under probe are the four companies which made up the $115million<br \/>\nslush fund.<\/p>\n<p>They are Northern Belt Gas Company Limited; Auctus Integrated; Midwestern<br \/>\nOil and Gas; and Lenoil, owned by Laitan Adesanya.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the N23.3 billion distributed by Fidelity Bank, Gesila Khan, now<br \/>\nREC for Cross River got N185.8million.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelia Omoile (Electoral Officer in Isoko-South Local Government Area of<br \/>\nDelta State) got N112.5 million; Uluochi Obi Brown INEC\u2019s Administrative<br \/>\nSecretary in Delta State got N111,500,000.<\/p>\n<p>A former Deputy Director of INEC in Cross River State, Edem Okon Effanga<br \/>\nwas paid N241,127,000 and the Head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa<br \/>\nIbom, Immaculata Asuquo also got N214,127,000.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC is now busy compiling the list of INEC officials in all the 36<br \/>\nstates, who were recipients of Diezani\u2019s N23.29billion.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;As Diezani&#8217;s Son, Ugonna Declared Wanted The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the managing director of Fidelity Bank, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo in connection with the $115 million slush&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8230;As Diezani&#8217;s Son, Ugonna Declared Wanted The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the managing director of Fidelity Bank, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo in connection with the $115 million slush&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\"},\"wordCount\":269,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\",\"name\":\"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News","og_description":"&#8230;As Diezani&#8217;s Son, Ugonna Declared Wanted The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the managing director of Fidelity Bank, Mr Nnamdi Okonkwo in connection with the $115 million slush&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":600,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe","datePublished":"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/"},"wordCount":269,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/","name":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg","datePublished":"2016-04-28T12:16:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Nnamdi_Okonkwo2.jpg","width":600,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fidelity-bank-md-arrested-115million-diezani-bribe\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fidelity Bank MD Arrested Over $115million Diezani Bribe"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}