Okonjo-Iweala Accuses Oil Marketers Of Kidnapping Her Mum

The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has linked the recent kidnap of her mother to the handiwork of oil marketers who are yet to be verified for the fuel subsidy payments.
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, Dr Iweala told reporters that her mother Professor Kamene Okonjo was categorically told that she was kidnapped because of her daughter’s refusal to pay oil marketers as well issues relating to the Subsidy Re-investment funds Programme, SURE-P.
She claimed that the two things the captors told her mother were “her daughter did not pay oil subsidy money and her daughter blocked payment of certain part of the SURE- P programme.”
The Minister however reiterated that payments have been and will be made to oil marketers that have been verified by the Aig-Imoukhuede committee.
She further added that for oil marketers that are not verified, the government’s position still remains that they will not be paid.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala described the survival of her mother in the hand of her captors as a miracle, because “she was held without food and water for five days.”
“I say it is a miracle because for an 83 year old woman, you will agree with me that God has done a miracle.”
Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, who was kidnapped on Sunday, the 9th of December, was released five days later.