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Anne Njeri: I was told to choose either oil or my life

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Business lady Ann Njeri Njoroge at the Mombasa Court in Mombasa County on Tuesday 14th November 2023. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

The businesswoman at the centre of the Sh17 billion oil deal yesterday narrated her 120 hours in captivity saying her abductors told her to choose between death and forfeiting the diesel.

Ms Ann Njeri is said to have gone missing on Thursday from the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters in Nairobi where she had allegedly gone to record a statement over the disputed ownership of the diesel between her and Galana Energies Limited and ARAMCO Trading Fujairah.

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