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05/11/2012 GMT

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An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in 80s London

An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in London, in 1984.

In London in 1984, a joint Nigerian-Israeli team attempted to kidnap and repatriate the exiled former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko.

Dikko, who'd fled Nigeria after a military coup, was accused of stealing $1 billion of government money. 

We hear from Charles David Morrow, the young British customs officer who foiled the kidnap plot.

Photo: Umaru Dikko shortly after his release. BBC

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