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Saturday 15 December 2012

Mother of Nigerian finance minister free from kidnappers.

The Nigeria finance minister's mother  was on Friday free of kidnappers after being abducted from her home in Nigeria last weekend within a crime that shocked the country, police said. Details of the release were unclear and there seemed to be no indication of no matter whether a ransom was paid out to free the 82-year-old Kamene Okonjo, whose daughter Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is really a high-profile minister and ex-World bank managing director.

"She has been freed, " police spokesman Mr Mba told AFP. "She is good health. " He declined to produce further details other than to express that she was freed earlier Friday. The minister's spokesman supplied a statement confirming this release, but also without having providing further details. One local television station reported that she had been dropped off from a motorcycle on Friday morning, but the information couldn't be immediately confirmed.

Kamene Okonjo was abducted Wednesday at her home in Delta state inside the country's south, where ransom kidnappings occur regularly. Local media reported that a gang of gunmen went to the house - locally called a "palace" as a result of her husband's position to be a traditional ruler in the neighborhood - in broad daylight. The motive even so remained unclear, with the finance ministry earlier spoken vaguely of threats designed to the minister.

Okonjo-Iweala, who had previously been a candidate to head the World Bank earlier this calendar year, has pushed to tidy up corruption in one of many world's most graft-ridden nations, particularly related to the fuel subsidy programme. The minister has been in a highly publicised have trouble with fuel importers over check of subsidies, with government officials delaying payments to permit for verification. However, ransom kidnappings will also be a lucrative business in Nigeria's south, though these kinds of high-profile victims are exceptional.



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