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Major General Nelson Williams, the Deputy High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to Nigeria Rtd. has been kidnapped THE BOSS NEWSPAPER revealed.
Embassy sources said that he was kidnapped sometime yesterday. He left the Sierra Leone mission in Abuja and went to attend a military graduation ceremony in Kaduna.
* Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma
Sources say “At four 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.
We were told that during one of the calls, Mr. Nelson Williams sounded very low and frightened.
The whereabouts of his driver (and those he was supposed to be with on the said trip), is presently unknown.
Nelson Williams was a former Head of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
SOURCE: THE BOSS
Embassy sources said that he was kidnapped sometime yesterday. He left the Sierra Leone mission in Abuja and went to attend a military graduation ceremony in Kaduna.
* Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bai Koroma
Sources say “At four 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.
We were told that during one of the calls, Mr. Nelson Williams sounded very low and frightened.
The whereabouts of his driver (and those he was supposed to be with on the said trip), is presently unknown.
Nelson Williams was a former Head of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces.
SOURCE: THE BOSS