Freed Emirati hostage returns home from Nigeria

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan received last night Emirati citizen Mohammed Khamis Majid who returned to the country after he was freed from his kidnappers in Nigeria by the Interior Ministry.
 
Khamis was greeted by Sheikh Saif as he stepped off the special plane which flew him from Nigeria, amid joy of his relatives, friends and the Interior Ministry team that freed him in Nigeria.
 
Sheikh Saif expressed appreciation to the family of Khamis for their cooperation with the special police team tasked with the operation.
 
"I waited for two months counting hours, minutes and seconds and hoping to get reassured about my son who traveled to Nigeria and got kidnapped by a gang there," said Khamis's mother.
 
She thanked Sheikh Saif for the efforts made to release Khamis from his captor and safely return him home.
 
"He personally called me to convey the good news that my son had been freed. His call lifted a mountain of burden off my chest. Yet, I wasn't surprised for, His Highness Sheikh Saif is a graduate of the school of our father the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan."
 
Meanwhile, authorities in the United Arab Emirates say a citizen kidnapped while on a business trip in Nigeria has been released.
 
The state news agency WAM said Mohammed Khamis Majed had been on a two-day trip when he was kidnapped in January. The news agency said Majed was freed without paying a demanded $5 million ransom and that his kidnappers had been arrested, though it offered no other details.

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