Sierra
Leone Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria Rtd. Major General Nelson Williams
has been kidnapped in Nigeria. I just spoke to our Embassy sources in Nigeria.
Yes, he has been kidnapped sometime yesterday. He left the Sierra Leone mission
in Abuja and went to attend a military graduation ceremony in Kaduna.
At
4am this morning, the embassy accountant received a strange phone call. It was
the kidnappers. They placed Nelson-Williams on the line and after he identified
himself to the accountant, the Kidnappers came back on the line and informed he
was in their custody and they had kidnapped him and wanted a ransom demand of
around 44 million Naira (about $150,000).
The
kidnappers have now called the Embassy twice this morning threatening unsavory
outcome if their ransom demand is not met. According to sources, one of the
calls had Nelson Williams sounding very low and frightened.
The
whereabouts of his driver (and those he was supposed to be with on the said
trip), is presently unknown.
The
exact details of how the kidnap happened is currently unknown. The Nigerian
Police, Intelligence Service and Foreign Office in Nigeria are now working with
the Sierra Leone Embassy in Abuja to investigate the matter.
The
Nigerian military has also been informed. Nelson Williams was a former Head of
the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
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