The indictment against Alison-Madueke names Benedict Peters as part of the criminal conspiracy...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The indictment names as part of the criminal conspiracy Benedict Peters  a Nigerian businessman  who has blamed bitter and unsubstantiated personal and corporate vendettas by rivals for a raft of separate allegations of impropriety...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Controversy has raged over the balance of responsibility for what Sentamu once described as 'environmental genocide' between the IOCs operating since 1958  including Shell and ENI  and local companies  especially Benedict Peters's Aiteo  which in 2016 bought OML29  where pipeline spills have continued (AC Vol 63 No 9  Oil spills and theft spike as big oil goes offshore)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The spill came from a field operated by Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company  which is run by the ubiquitous billionaire Benedict Peters...
      Peters expands his portfolio Benedict Peters  the managing director of Nigeria's Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company  has courted much controversy for his dealings in his home country and Ghana  where he is currently based...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The operating company there  Aiteo – run by Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters – had admitted to a spill of 3 000 barrels of crude oil  far from the two-million-barrel-spill alleged by Bayelsa governor Douye Diri (AC Vol 58 No 7  The great oil chase)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Africa Confidential understands that Frontier Health is owned by the family of Nigerian oil billionaire Benedict Peters  via a complex chain of companies registered ultimately in Dominica...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Frontiers is owned by one of Nigeria's more colourful oil magnates  Benedict Peters  who has been based in Ghana after leaving Nigeria after Muhammadu Buhari's election in 2015 (AC Vol 58 No 7  The great oil chase & Vol 59 No 4  'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Where there has been controversy – such as over the award of an airport Covid-19 testing contract to high-profile Nigerian oilman Benedict Peters – it has not gained traction (AC Vol 59 No 4  'Feigned lawsuit' bid to foil US)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Frontier  registered in the Dominican Republic  is owned by Nigerian oil billionaire Benedict Peters  who moved to Ghana after President Muhammadu Buhari's government came to power in Abuja in 2015...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Other leading local operators are the privately-owned Eroton  whose chairman Onajite Okoloko was one of the founding partners in Oando and runs the Notore fertiliser plant in Rivers State; Neconde  which acquired fields from Shell; and Aiteo  owned by Benedict Peters  who was reputedly close to the former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke  now under investigation in the UK (AC Vol 58 No 7  There will be blood...