... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, his family said.
Shettima Ali Monguno, 87, served as Nigeria's oil minister in the 1970s and held the rotating presidency of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 1972.
"The abductors got in touch and they put my father through on the phone, he spoke to us and said that he was fine. They made a ransom demand," the ex-minister's son, Abubakar Ali Monguno told Agence La Belle France Presse, declining to give a figure.
Other residents and relatives said that Monguno had stayed behind to greet well-wishers after prayers and was attacked shortly after entering his car.
While no group claimed the attack, Boko Haram has targeted prominent figures around the northeastern city, with liquidations and kidnaps for ransom.
Some analysts have said that Boko Haram is increasingly relying on ransom payments as a means to finance their insurgency, which has left thousands dead since 2009.
Monguno was among the group of elders who met with President
Goodluck Jonathan... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
in Maiduguri in March to discuss the Boko Haram crisis.
He has repeatedly called for dialogue with the bad boy group and urged Jonathan to reduce the massive security deployment in the city, with a curfew forcing all residents to stay indoors after sundown.