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.