On July 5, 1984, he was FOUND DRUGGED in a crate at Stansted Airport that was being claimed as DIPLOMATIC BAGGAGE , an apparent victim of a Buhari Govt, sanctioned kidnapping. The crates destination was Lagos. -- RIP UMARU DIKKO. Umaru Dikko (1936 – 1 July 2014[1]) was a Nigerian politician and was an adviser to President Shehu Shagari. He was also the Nigerian minister for Transportation from 1979-1983. Dikko was born in Wamba. He started playing a role in the nations governance in 1967, when he was appointed as a commissioner in the then North Central State of Nigeria (now Kaduna State). He was also secretary of a committee set up by General Hassan Katsina to unite the Northerners after a coup in 1966.[2] In 1979, he was made Shagaris campaign manager for the successful presidential campaign of the National Party of Nigeria. During the nations Second Republic, he played prominent roles as transport minister and head of the presidential task force on rice. A military coup on December 31, 1983, overthrew the government of Shagari. Dikko fled into exile in London as well as a few other ministers and party officials of the National Party of Nigeria. The new military regime accused him of large-scale corruption while in office, in particular of embezzling millions of dollars from the nations oil revenues. On July 5, 1984, he played the central role in the Dikko Affair; he was found drugged in a crate at Stansted Airport that was being claimed[3] as Diplomatic Baggage, an apparent victim of a government sanctioned kidnapping.[4] The crates destination was Lagos. --Culled from Wikipedia.
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