BREAKING NEWS, Youth
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YUNUSA Yellow, the alleged abductor of Ese Oruru, a Bayelsa State teenager, is to face criminal charges. Shuaibu Gambo, assistant commissioner of Police in charge of Zone 1 Police Headquarters, Kano, said on Tuesday March 1.
Yunusa and Oruru, 14, were transported to the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon at about 1:00 pm.
“She would be handed over to police commissioner in charge of Bayelsa State, who in return will hand her to her family,” Gambo said.
According to the Police boss, Solomon Arase, inspector general of Police, would address a press conference on the matter, saying the IGP would give details of the case to the press.
Shuaibu, however, denied that Oruru was taken to hospital for check-up.
“That is all I can tell you. I promise to talk to you as soon as the IG gives me go-ahead. Pre-empting him is an act of insubordination,” he added.
Oruru had arrived the police headquarters in Abuja from Kano dressed in a native attire and white hijab. She was accompanied into the complex by two women and three men, all dressed in Hausa native attires.
On arrival, the teenager and her delegation were ushered into the office of Bisi Kolawole, Police spokesperson, and later taken to another office.
Kolawole later told journalists that the police was waiting for Oruru’s parents to arrive before giving a press conference.
Ese Oruru was allegedly abducted in Opolo, Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by Yunusa in August, 2015. It took the intervention of non-governmental organisation and The Punch publication to get her case known to the world.
Following The Punch publication there was an outrage which forced Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano, to order immediate release of Oruru who was kidnapped to Kano State from Bayelsa State as a child-bride, to her parents.
Sanusi ordered the Kano State Sharia Commission to liaise with the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 1 to commence the process of returning the girl allegedly abducted by one Yunusa of Kura Local Government of the state.
The Civil Liberty Organisation, CLO, in a statement after an emergency meeting on Sunday, February 28, had indicted the emir and the Kano Emirate Council for allegedly harbouring the abducted teenager.
The CLO condemned the action and called on the federal government and the international community to probe and help release the abducted teenager.
In a swift reaction, Sanusi denied the allegation, describing the story as mischievous and baseless.
At a press conference at his palace, the emir lamented that the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, called him from South Africa to know his side of the story, which he said was crafted to simply tarnish the image of the Emirate Council and Islam.
“I ordered her immediate repatriation to her parents who were said to be in Bayelsa State. I ordered the Kano State Shariah Commission to liaise with the assistant inspector general, AIG, Zone 1 to assist in taking her back to her parents in Bayelsa,” he said.
Sanusi said he solicited the intervention of the police authorities because the girl was said to have made a statement that she was afraid that her parents could harm her.
“In Islam, she has no right to just go ahead and decide things for herself. She is still young. She is not mature enough. And there is nowhere in Islam where such young girls can just make up their mind and give their hands in marriage just like that. It is not permitted in Islam. That is why we said she must be taken back to her parents,” Sanusi said.
— Mar 1, 2016 @ 16:50 GMT
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