Okonjo Kidnap: $1 billion Ransom Demand Dismissed by Law Enforcement

Professor Kanene Okonjo, the mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was kidnapped on Sunday afternoon from her home in Ogwashi-Uku by eight men who invaded her husband’s palace.
Foreign news agency, Reuters, reported, that someone, possibly one of the kidnappers, had made a $1bn demand in a phone call on Monday.
The Delta State Police Command has said that reports of phone calls demanding ransome is false.

The police spokesperson also appealed to the people of Ogwashi-Uku to provide information to the police to assist them in the investigation.