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.

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I hope she is found safe and sound. When will all these kidnappings stop for goodness sake?

Dat 1 wey dey switch line off,wen e reach money u go dey charge ur fone

Nigeria, we hail thee!!

Too bad. But me thinks they should probe the writers of this article for knowing so many details?? How did they know she tried to run away before they rounded her?

nice one to the kidnappers, they are your meats not we the so-called masses,
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Less i 4get, the public fund will be used to pay for her ransom,
#gush#

last I heard, the penalty for kidnapping someone is death, when will our youth learn? I really tire for Nigerian youth, they don't learn from others mistakes

Boko Haram in the North, kidnapping/armed robbery in the South, floods all over the country.......mixed up with high rate of unemployment, corruption and poverty, this country needs help of any form. God help us and the govt, especially the President, to know what to do and give us the will to do it, at these trying times

Wait till some e-idiots start blaming the PDP

Congratulation MEND for introducing Kidnapping as cheap and high ROI ventures in the South!

this is so bad....in osun state?

this stupidity should rather remain in south east and south south, igbo and niger deltans Be warned!

Dawdy: this stupidity should rather remain in south east and south south, igbo and niger deltans Be warned!

And what will you do?
Bloody coward!!

Kidnapping has become d business of d day in naija. As a result of unemployment in general and underemployment in particular(yes- o and o -yes).

Dawdy: this stupidity should rather remain in south east and south south, igbo and niger deltans Be warned!

you don start abi, am not suprised, see your name, /*dondi*/

When you fight and rob the society by stealing funds and allocating money meant for development to yourselves, then the society fights back.

Where is Jack Bauer, chei I miss that guy.

The kidnappers just want a part of the masses fund being looted

Oh no, not again...what's osun state turning to. More than a month ago one popular/millionaire man called Nobility was also kidnapped around his house in Ilesa, osun state. Up till now he hasn't be found, the most annyoying part is that his kidnappers haven't contact the family and its more than one month or two months. May God keeps protecting us in this country, and may we not be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Dawdy: this stupidity should rather remain in south east and south south, igbo and niger deltans Be warned!

....Insted of u people to condem bads tinz, u dey show ur tribalistik goat head" is nw @ ur door steps ...Deal with it.. Alika

Wat a welcome development

yemi2plus2: Wat a welcome development

Lolz

They should pay the Zap.i.n.g ransom let us here word.

Policy should fight a desperate battle to rescue her.

Dawdy: this stupidity should rather remain in south east and south south, igbo and niger deltans Be warned!

And what is this dude trying to say ?

Guyz please, hw can i be part of NKA (Nigeria Kidnappers Asso.)?
i guess its a low capital intensive, With maximum profit. Coz i've got to pay my final year school fees.

Omo c dis coward are geting more couragious .
Beru beru people who dash u liver

Nigeria is fast becoming a jungle.
This day i hereby denounce my citezenship of Nigeria. Am now a citizen of Zimbabwe.

I guess this should be call O kidnap... pls kindly tell ogbeni to create O- rescue

wonder who is kidnapping who