Umaru Dikko Dies at 78
Category: Nigerian National News
The death of Nigeria’s Second Republic Minister of Transport, Alhaji
Umaru Dikko has been announced. According to his family, Alhaji Umaru
died this morning in the United Kingdom. He had been ill for several
months.
Mr. Dikko was popularly known as one of the most powerful ministers under the Shehu Shagari regime in the early 1980s. When the military ousted the regime via a coup d’etat in 1983, Mr. Dikko escaped to the UK on exile. The military regime led by then head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, accused Dikko of massive corruption and official graft and thus secretly organized his kidnapping from the streets of London.
In 1984, Mr. Dikko was kidnapped, drugged and packaged as a diplomatic baggage in a cargo ready to be shipped to Lagos Nigeria unconscious. His abductors were later arrested by the UK police as they tried to ship him through Stansed airport in London.
Mr. Dikko was popularly known as one of the most powerful ministers under the Shehu Shagari regime in the early 1980s. When the military ousted the regime via a coup d’etat in 1983, Mr. Dikko escaped to the UK on exile. The military regime led by then head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, accused Dikko of massive corruption and official graft and thus secretly organized his kidnapping from the streets of London.
In 1984, Mr. Dikko was kidnapped, drugged and packaged as a diplomatic baggage in a cargo ready to be shipped to Lagos Nigeria unconscious. His abductors were later arrested by the UK police as they tried to ship him through Stansed airport in London.
Dikko later returned to Nigeria where he has since participated in politics. He was aged 78. May his soul rest in perfect peace.
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