kidnapped former Petroleum
Minister, Ali Monguno, has regained his freedom.
Borno State Police Commissioner,
Abdullahi Yuguda said Alhaji Shettima Ali Munguno was set free yesterday after
three days in captivity, but declined to speak on how he was released. Mongunu
was abducted by yet to be identified gunmen on Friday, at a mosque in Maiduguri,
Borno State. The elder statesman’s son, Abubakar Ali Monguno, said the
kidnappers immediately contacted the family demanding for a ransom.
Meanwhile, unofficial sources said
about four hundred thousand Euros, about fifty million naira was paid for his
release.
The
eighty-nine year old Monguno, was oil minister in the 1970s and equally held
the rotating presidency of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) in 1972.
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