The Crate Escape

Witness History: Archive 2012 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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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