Niece Of Ex-Minister Shot Dead After FG’s Travel Ban Announcement

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Nigeria's Finance Minister Nenadi Usman speaks during a luncheon at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - World Bank meeting, in Singapore September 18, 2006. REUTERS/Tim Chong

 

A former Minister of Finance, Sen. Nenadi Esther Usman, has lost her niece hours after her name purportedly appeared on a list of 50 persons banned from travelling by the Federal Government travel ban announcement.

 

A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made this known in a Monday morning tweet via his verified Twitter handle and in a WhatsApp message to The Eagle Online.

 

Fani-Kayode is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside Usman over their alleged complicity in the $2.1 billion expended by the office of the National Security Adviser during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime, Sambo Dasuki.

 

Usman was finance minister between July 2006 and May 2007 and, according to The Nation, appeared on the list like Fani-Kayode.

According to him, the unnamed niece was trailed and shot dead in Abuja by four policemen.

 

He did not state how and why she was shot.

See tweet:

Former Min. of Finance and leading opposition figure, Sen. Nenadi Usman was among those listed on Buhari’s travel ban. A couple of hours following the Presidency announced the ban her niece was trailed, targetted, of the night time in Abuja intercepted and shot dead by 4 policemen in the centre!

 

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There was no response by the police to enquiries as at press time.

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