Osun Speaker’s Wife Kidnappers bag 27years jail term each

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The five persons standing trial for kidnapping the wife of Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Alhaja Muibat Salaam have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each by the state High court sitting at Iwo.

Chukwudi Okereke (40), Ogbole Ochijile Elijah (25), Okonkwo Lucky (33), Kaikine Mahah (35) and Nwadinnor Philip (30). They were said to have conspired and kidnapped Mrs. Salaam who was returning from her shop in her Honda Accord car at about 8pm around Oke-Oyo Road in Ejigbo, Osun state on 9th of October, 2012.

According to the prosecution led by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state ministry of Justice, Mr. Wale Afolabi, the convicts had confessed to the kidnapping of the speaker’s wife in their individual statements to the police during investigations.

The presiding judge, Justice Moshood Adeigbe said that the prosecution has been able to establish their case against the defendants stressing that “the confessional statements were clear that the accused persons met at Royal Hotel in Agbor, Delta State where they planned the kidnap, perfected it in Lagos and carried it out in Ejigbo”.

Justice Adeigbe said that “the exhibits also showed that the five accused persons kidnapped the PW2 (Mrs. Salaam), forced her into a trailer and dragged her into the bush on their way to Lagos before the Ogun State Police Command arrested them. I hold that the prosecution have established their case and therefore found the five accused persons guilty of Conspiracy, Kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms”.

Defence counsels, Messrs. Sam George and Fredrick Komolafe prayed the court to be lenient with the accused persons but Justice Adeigbe maintained that the five convicts deserve full punishments for their offences.

Justice Adeigbe however noted that each term of the sentence shall run concurrently since the counts arose out of the charges of the same act. Counsel to the accused persons, Komolafe told the court that that his clients would appeal the judgment