Breaking: Kidnapped former Edo Speaker’s wife, Hassana regains freedom

The widow of the former Edo State House Speaker, Hassana Zakawanu Garuba has regained freedom.

She was kidnapped alongside her driver on way to bury her late husband on Lokoja-Okene road.

Her husband reportedly died of undisclosed illness on 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.

The kidnappers were said to have made away with the widower while leaving the three children and their grandmother.

It was not certain, if ransom was paid by the late Speaker’s family before she was released by her abductors.