By Adeleye Kunle
The Arewa Consultative Youth Forum (ACYF), has called on the federal government to always stand firmly with its citizens in moments of challenges abroad.
The forum noted with nostalgia and shame how the 2019 US indictment of Allen Onyema has been used and promoted deliberately by a section of the Nigerian press to malign the character and businesses of one of Nigeria’s true nationalists in a calculated bid to bring him down and ultimately, Air Peace, Nigeria’s leading airline.
The forum stated that the recent admission of the US government in court in the case of Ebony Mayfield, a staff of Springfield Aviation Company LLC, a United States based company, that no bank suffered any loss whatsoever in the transactions of Allen Onyema, is a pointer to the fact that this man never intended to commit any fraud in his dealings.
Alhaji Yerima Shettima, National President of AYCF in a statement said, “In view of the above development, we wish to call on the Nigerian government to stand firmly with its citizens in moments of challenges abroad.”
The statement explained that the government owes a duty to protect the integrity of its citizens and their corporate image whenever such is called into question.
“The government should wade into this matter immediately to bring it to a permanent end. Nigerians would not accept our government sitting on the fence while one its best is being destroyed with the might of a foreign country. If this is allowed to continue, Nigerian youths would lose faith in their nation,” the statement explained.
According to the statement, would America allow a US company providing a meagre less than 100 jobs/employment in America to be so treated? saying no that Allen Onyema and his businesses, in a country where Nigerians are grappling with massive unemployment, are providing over 15,000 jobs
