Police Give Conflicting Details Regarding Okonjo-Iweala's Mother's Escape From Kidnappers

The official story given by police to explain the release of kidnapped Prof. Kamene Okonjo, mother of Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is raising doubt about the real circumstances surrounding her escape.

At a press conference, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ikechukwu Aduba, said the Queen Mother was freed by her abductors after five days in confinement and taken home by motorcycle from Kwale, 50 kilometers away. The young man who dropped off Mrs. Okonjo has been arrested and is being questioned, police said.

What remains confusing is the mode of transportation of Professor Okonjo on a motorbike from the scene of freedom to her home if actually the police stormed the kidnappers hideout and rescued her as being claimed.

With the case "resolved," it remains unclear whether those arrested in recent days in connection with the kidnapping would be released or charged.

The Queen Mother of Ogwashi-Uku was kidnapped last Sunday at aboaut 1:47 p.m. by 10 armed kidnappers at her husband’s palace.

Unofficial sources told our reporter that the Queen Mother managed to free herself unassisted, but an updated police version of the story alleges that police stormed the kidnappers’ den in Asaba, the state capital, where they killed one suspect, Nwaze Nwosa aka Bolaji, arrested another gang member and shot four members of the gang who escaped with bullet wounds.

It is unclear what role the storming of a location in Asaba had to do with the kidnap victim regaining her freedom in Kwale. Also unknown is whether a ransom was paid to facilitate her release.

Earlier, the Police Command blamed "insiders" for orchestrating the Queen Mother’s abduction, and they unmasked the identity of 25 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and pipeline vandals that have been terrorizing the oil rich state.

Briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Asaba today, CP Aduba said the sensitive nature of Queen Mother Okonjo’s kidnap made the command beam its searchlight on any obvious errors or lapses either on the part of the palace guards or the Divisional Police Headquarters in Ogwashi-Uku. He said the release of the victim involved the combined efforts of the crack team of policemen deployed by the Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, and the proactiveness of men of the Special Anti-Crime Squad (SARS).

According to him, “the Delta State Police supported by a crack team from IGP’s Special Task Force on Terrorism, Abuja, consciously and professionally with due caution collated intelligence on the activities of the hoodlums and struck their hideouts in Asaba.” He said the manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang was on and that the command would not rest until they were arrested.

He displayed the items recovered from their hideouts to include an ash-coloured Golf 3 car with registration number DELTA ASB 697 AA, which he said had been used to transport the Queen Mother out of the palace; and a white Toyota bus, labeled God’s Delight Church International, with registration number ANAMBRA KPP 64 XA.

A Police source in the state told SaharaReporters that the dead leader of the kidnap gang had been on the most wanted list for his alleged involvement in a series of kidnapping and violent crimes in the state. He also stated that the Delta state police command once arrested him and charged him with various crimes, but he was released without trial and kidnappings continue unabated in the state.

Mrs Okonjo is a retired professor of sociology at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka.
Her husband, Obi Chukwuka Okonjo Agbogidi, a retired professor of economics, is the traditional ruler of the Ogwashi-Uku kingdom in Delta State.

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...lol, the story get k-leg. So who dey lie, police or the Queen? Also, i thought she is the Queen, which one be Queen mother? na wah for naija and title.

lol

Failed country! some said it was the army, now police, they stormed the hideout, a motorcycle dropped her.

Questions?
1. If the stormed the hideout, why didn't they come out with they woman?
2. How can an 82 year old woman escape from dangerous kidnapper just like that?

Okonjo Iweala kidnapped her own mother.. Don't be deceived!!!

She accused a subsidy cabal and yet she was indicted in the subsidy fraud. So which cabal is going after NOI's mother?

Okonjo Iweala kidnapped her own mother!!

These people will soon spin an escape plot worthy of a Jack Bauer movie!

.which one be queen mother..

Which one is "Queen" mother?

seems like these ppl are more concerned with giving us her family history.

PS: Was she rescued because she's connected to power, or because she was in danger?

E BE LIKE SAY DEM WANT TO TELL US ANOTHER STORY AGAIN NI OOOOOOOH.............. I LAF IN 2FACE

SuperStory

Tales by moon light.

So on one hand, we have A 80 something years old grandmomma escaping by herself,

On the other hand we have the NPF rescuing her.

Well this is a no brainer. . . I go with the 80 something years old grandmomma escaping by herself.

. . . .The NPF couldn't find their way out of a paper bag even if they had a map.

[size=16pt]Maybe She Did An "Usain Bolt" and Bolted Away
At 80-something years of age? Damn! That Must Be A World Record For The Greatest Escape. [/size]

Ogbuefi_Negro: ...lol, the story get k-leg. So who dey lie, police or the Queen? Also, i thought she is the Queen, which one be Queen mother? na wah for naija and title.

u neva c anytn my grandpapa na king father!!

@ op, I no even understand dis story, maybe if i turn my laptop up side down and read am, i fit understand becos even film trick no fit work for ur story

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Hilarious connection of events around the
kidnap of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's mom
* Day 1: Ngozi's mother was kidnapped
* Day 2: Kidnappers made contact and
requested for $1billion to free her.
* Day 3: GEJ requested N161billion for
supplementary budget. (19 days to end the
year) $1b = N160billion
* Day 4: Senate approves $1billion for GEJ. Day 5: Kidnappers released Ngozi's mother.
Hmm very interesting

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Na wow for this kind country, The worst curse one can swear for u, is for you to have a bad government in your life time.

This people are well learned foolish kidnappers want to reap where they did not sow do they know how the woman suffered to train her daughter she went to harvard courtesy of her fathers money mtscheeeew when their father was bleeping increasing population they know no shey thunder fire those kidnappers bastards as if na okonji make their family poor

Anybody who believes this hogwash might as well believe there are 70days in the month of december!!!

Let me rephrase, anybody who believes this stupid hogwash has no grey matter left in his brains.

Cock & bull story

you must be a verywise person, these guys are taking us for a ride and we seem helpless

ReachRich: Hilarious connection of events around the
kidnap of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's mom
* Day 1: Ngozi's mother was kidnapped
* Day 2: Kidnappers made contact and
requested for $1billion to free her.
* Day 3: GEJ requested N161billion for
supplementary budget. (19 days to end the
year) $1b = N160billion
* Day 4: Senate approves $1billion for GEJ. Day 5: Kidnappers released Ngozi's mother.
Hmm very interesting

ReachRich: [size=28pt]Hilarious connection of events around the
kidnap of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's mom
* Day 1: Ngozi's mother was kidnapped
* Day 2: Kidnappers made contact and
requested for $1billion to free her.
* Day 3: GEJ requested N161billion for
supplementary budget. (19 days to end the
year) $1b = N160billion
* Day 4: Senate approves $1billion for GEJ. Day 5: Kidnappers released Ngozi's mother.
Hmm very interesting[/size]

Oh by the way, how do you call it crime solving when you arrest the entire village for the crime?

I swear I have never. . .ever read any news article or watched a news report about the NPF solving a crime where the people arrested were less than 5.

Police arrest 120 people in connection to goat theft in Minna.

75 Arrested in rash of Chicken killings in Okokomaiko

45 Students arrested for Pencil theft in Kawo


And the Randomness of the arrest nko?

Police arrest Groundnut seller who may have sold groundnut to 32 of 10000 suspects arrested in connection to the theft of Nepa poles in Abuja.

God Help Us!!

ReachRich: Hilarious connection of events around the
kidnap of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's mom
* Day 1: Ngozi's mother was kidnapped
* Day 2: Kidnappers made contact and
requested for $1billion to free her.
* Day 3: GEJ requested N161billion for
supplementary budget. (19 days to end the
year) $1b = N160billion
* Day 4: Senate approves $1billion for GEJ. Day 5: Kidnappers released Ngozi's mother.
Hmm very interesting

this makes so much sense

Now we are to believe an 80yr old woman turned to Ben johnson and bolted dodging bullets, scaling fences, Giving her kidnappers karate kicks

If you believe that then you can also believe Retardeen Jonathan has common sense

dayokanu:

this makes so much sense

Now we are to believe an 80yr old woman turned to Ben johnson and bolted dodging bullets, scaling fences, Giving her kidnappers karate kicks

If you believe that then you can also believe Retardeen Jonathan has common sense

She was supposedly released by her kidnappers.

You expect us to believe this drama our politicians are acting? Smh in utmost pity

This is a cover up, money has exchanged hands.

No matter how she was released thank God she is alive and well.

hahahahahahahahaha....una dey tell tom

cock nd bull stories!!! All dis stuff na rubish!!!