Unknown gunmen in Ejigbo, Osun State, on Tuesday, kidnapped the wife of the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam.
Muiba, the first wife of the Speaker, was kidnapped in the Bamagay Square area of the town shortly after she had left her shop where she sold bags of rice, semovita and groundnut oil.
Her Honda car was overtaken by the vehicle of a six-member gang. The gang reportedly forced her Honda car to stop along Union Baptist Road in the Oke-Oyo area of Ejigbo, the Speaker’s hometown.
Our correspondent learnt that Muiba, who alighted and attempted to run from the kidnappers, was stopped and forced into a waiting car.
Chairman, House Committee on Regional Integration and Special Duties, Mr Femi Fafiyebi, confirmed the development, saying the news was “shocking.”
“I just heard about it a few minutes ago. Osun is a very peaceful state. We are the only state that checked flooding and created the most enabling environment in the south-west. I don’t know why this should happen in our dear state,” Fafiyebi said.
Police Public Relations Officer, Osun Command, Mrs Sade Odoro, who promised to get across to our correspondent over the development failed to do so.
Her phone was switched off when our correspondent called her back for confirmation.
Our correspondent reports that it is in Odoro’s character to ignore inquiries by journalists over crime matters in the state.
Source: Endy Edeson ONLINE NEWS Network
Posted: at 10-10-2012 05:09 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
Hey Speaker, thunder don fire you, go and pay since you've been chopping, now let others chop ur money, and don't art anything stupid b'cos you may lose ur wife, Just pay whatever amount they demand from you....This is game guys should be playing and stop killing and taking from the poor....
Posted: at 10-10-2012 11:09 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
Judging from the huge salaries and benefits of these lawmakers in Nigeria, and the vast numbers of the unemployed graduates in Nigerian, I am not surprised with the rise of armed robbery and kidnapping in that Country.
Posted: at 10-10-2012 12:42 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
steveoneal at 10-10-2012 04:56 PM (12 years ago) (m)
ABEG MAKE UNA NO CARRY THIS BULLSHITTT ENTER SOUTHWEST; OOOO; AND IF REALLYM UNA NO GET OPTION;; NO PROBLEM; THEN CONCETRATE OF THE POLITICIANS ; AND I WISH YOU BEST OF LUCK WHILE YOU FACE THOSE POLITICIANS;; NO BE OUR FOLKS WEY HUSTLE WELLA BEFORE DEM MAKE AM OOOO;;;
Posted: at 10-10-2012 04:56 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac