In a new interview
with BBC, former Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, narrated how angry oil
marketers vowed she would be made to leave office in a wheelchair because she
was fighting against the abuse of oil subsidy.
Okonjo-Iweala in the interview, said the same angry
oil marketers organized her then 82-year-old mother's abduction in December
2012 and that when the kidnappers contacted her, they did not ask for money as
was widely thought but rather demanded that she should go to television,
announce her resignation and also pay oil marketers their money.
''She was held for five days. I got a call. They
didn't ask for money, contrary to what people thought. They told me to go to
the Television and radio and publicly resign and go back to the US where I was
working before. This was shocking. When my mother asked the four young men why
they abducted her, the kidnappers said because your daughter did not pay oil
marketers their money and that is how we found out it had to do with oil
marketers'' she said.
Okonjo-Iweala said a meeting where oil marketers
talked about making her leave office in a wheelchair was brought to the open by
the grace of God.
''One of the people who participated in the meeting
happened to have been a friend to one of my brothers. He thought that what was
been planned wasn't fair. He called my brother and said you have to tell your
sister to be careful. I confronted one of the marketers where the meeting took
place'' she said.
Watch a video from the
interview below:
https://youtu.be/SNk7e8nsIUosource: lindaikejiblog
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