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$2.4bn Subsidy Fraud Probe Led to My Mother’s Kidnap, Says Okonjo-Iweala

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has revealed that her efforts to expose an alleged $2.4 billion fuel subsidy fraud in Nigeria triggered threats against her and the eventual kidnapping of her mother in 2012. Okonjo-Iweala, who served as Nigeria’s finance minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, disclosed that the kidnappers […]