How my mother was kidnapped over $2.4bn subsidy fraud — Okonjo-Iweala

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said an investigation into unusually high fuel subsidy claims in Nigeria uncovered alleged fraud worth $2.4 billion. After her office refused to pay the disputed claims, her mother, Kamene Okonjo, was kidnapped from her home in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, in December 2012. The kidnappers demanded that Okonjo-Iweala resign as finance minister and leave the country; her mother escaped after five days in a forest. Okonjo-Iweala, now director-general of the WTO, said the ordeal left her with a lasting sense of guilt, while her father urged her not to give in to blackmail.