THE Nigerian justice minister has been asked to explain the “abduction” of a businessman to the United States at the request of the US drugs agency. The lawyer of Lanre Shittu, a prominent car dealer, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to summon minister Bola Ige to explain why the government allowed the US agents to illegally abduct Shittu at the weekend. Shittu is to be charged, along with three other Nigerians already in the United States, on eight counts of laundering drugs money and fraud, Okoye said. – AFP