$2.4bn Fuel Subsidy Fraud Probe Led To My Mother’s Kidnap – Okonjo-Iweala

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) , Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has recounted how her investigation into an alleged $2.4 billion fuel subsidy fraud in Nigeria triggered threats against her and the abduction of her mother in 2012.
Okonjo-Iweala, who was Nigeria’s finance minister at the time, said the kidnappers demanded that she resign from office and leave the country in exchange for her mother’s release.
She disclosed this during an interview with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua on the Leaders programme, published earlier this week.
The former minister said the investigation began after officials noticed a sharp increase in claims submitted by fuel importers under N...