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May 22, 2010

May 22, 2010 - Naharnet - 4 Lebanese Kidnapped in Nigeria Released

The Expatriates Director General in the Foreign Ministry, Haitham Jumaa, announced on Saturday that four Lebanese citizens who were kidnapped last week in Nigeria have been released.
He told the AFP that the Lebanese Consul General Chawki Abou Nassar informed the Lebanese Foreign Ministry that the captives were released Saturday morning.

Jumaa added that more information will be available once the citizens arrive at the Lebanese Embassy in Nigeria.

The four -- workers of Stemco construction firm -- were seized in Akwa Ibom by a number of armed individuals dressed in military uniforms.

Akwa Ibom is one of Nigeria's nine oil-rich states and it neighbors Rivers state, the oil hub of the restive oil-producing Niger Delta region.

A few years ago, hundreds of kidnappings targeting foreigners and Nigerians took place in the country.

Most of the victims were workers in the oil industry working in the Niger Delta.

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