Hassana, the wife of former Edo Speaker, Zakawanu Garuba, who was abducted along the Lokoja-Abuja highway on Saturday, has been released.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that she was kidnapped with the driver on her way to Auchi to bury her husband, Garuba, who died of undisclosed ailment in the early hours of Saturday in Abuja.
Hassana, her three children and aged mother of the late Speaker were travelling from Abuja for the burial when they ran into kidnappers at Kabba junction in Kogi state.
Speaker’s wife, driver abducted in Kogi
The kidnappers were said to have made away with the widower while leaving the three children and their grandmother.
Meanwhile, in a latest development, the younger brother to the late ex-Edo speaker on Saturday night said that Hassana has been released unhurt by her abductors.
He however said the whereabouts of the driver remained unknown.
While it was confirmed that the remains of Garuba would be interred tonight in his Auchi residence.
More to come…