Osun Speaker Decries Abduction, Killing Of Perm Sec

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State

Outraged by the abduction and killing of Mrs Kemi Kolawole, a Permanent Secretary in Osun, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, has called on the Federal authorities to provide adequate security on the nation’s highways particularly the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.

He spoke against the backdrop of the killing of Kolawole and her driver, on Okene-Abuja highway by some suspected kidnappers.

“It is painful and shocking,” the speaker said in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo signed by Mr Goke Butika, the Chief Press Secretary.

Salaam decried the spate of killings and insecurity particularly on Okene-Abuja road and urged Kogi and the Federal Government to take urgent steps to find the killers of the permanent secretary and her driver.