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"After I got the call from my mom that she had been k!dn@pp£d and that they were demanding r@ns0m, I called my brothers. They went to Ogun State around 5 a.m. On arriving there, they were told that someone had already reported the case.
They were trying to find out who reported it, and that was how we discovered it was my younger brother. Apparently, he had sighted them first and started running until he escaped.
Around that same time, they had already picked up my mom. He went to the police station to complain and later followed them back to the farm to raid the whole place. After the raid, they all went back to the police station, and he slept there.
The next day, the DPO gave him ₦10,000 for transport back to Lagos so he could report the inc!d£nt to us, not knowing that the k!dn@ppers had already contacted us the night before.
On getting home, he was already tr@umat!zed and did not leave his room for two days. The police tried tracking my mom’s number, but they couldn’t, and later told us to go and look for the r@ns0m.
Aside from the r@ns0m fee, they also asked for ₦1 million transfer to a particular account. They demanded food, recharge cards, bread, and sardines. When the exchange was completed, they released my mom.
When she got back, she said they didn’t give them food and water for days. She told us to be thanking God on her behalf because there was someone else who was k!dn@pp£d alongside her.
The family paid ₦28 million, but they still k!!led the woman after collecting the money, and also the person that brought the money.
She came back with bru!s£s all over her body, but thank God she is fine...."
- Lady who cr!£d out over Ogun farm abd&ct!0n of mother and brother gives update after mother’s release.
"You're a stupid boy! God will punish you! You persuaded me to deregulate diesel, and now there's no diesel in the country!"
— Obasanjo to Femi Otedola
In 2004, President Obasanjo deregulated the importation of diesel. This meant the government agency, NNPC, would no longer be the exclusive importer of diesel into Nigeria. It also meant private citizens like Otedola, who were involved in the diesel business, could now source diesel outside Nigeria and import it into the country to sell without having to rely on NNPC.
This order by Obasanjo meant diesel in Nigeria was now subject to market forces determined by global crude oil prices and the country's supply-and-demand dynamics.
These supply-and-demand dynamics also meant private citizens who imported diesel could now hoard the product to cause scarcity, drive up the price, and make more money by selling above the normal price. Obasanjo believed this was what Otedola was doing.
Femi Otedola, however, insisted that the President was being lied to by his enemies and competitors, and that there was enough diesel in the country for manufacturing and other uses.
Source: Making It Big by Femi Otedola