Abduction: Police
To Unite Ese Oruru With Parents Today
The Nigeria Police Force expected today to invite the
abducted 14-year-girl allegedly forced into child marriage, Ese Oruru, with her
parents in Abuja according to reaching Beats-onit .
This followed her parents’ inability to make it to the
Nigerian Police force headquarters in Abuja.
Speaking to reporters gathered at the headquarters at 7:25
pm, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olabisi Kolawola, said the expected
parents were still at Abaji, at the border town between Abuja and Kogi State,
and that it was not certain when they would arrive at the police headquarters
to collect their daughter.
She, however, noted that Ese Oruru, who arrived at the Force
Headquarters at 12:50pm, in company of some police officers and the alleged
abductor, Yunusa, was doing well.
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Journalists were, however, not allowed to see her and will
have to wait for when she is handed over to her parents today to catch a proper
glimpse of her, and probably the culprit in her abduction, Yunusa.
Young Ese was allegedly kidnapped by Yunusa in Opolo,
Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, in August 2015 and renamed
Aishat on arriving in Kano State, where the man claimed that he had converted
her to Islam and married her.
Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II, had
ordered the Shariah Court sitting in Kano to immediately release Ese to the
Police AIG, Zone 1, Kano, to commence the process of returning her to her
parents.
The emir, in his first official response since the abduction
of the youngster was made public, distanced himself and the Kano Emirate
Council from the purported abduction by her suspected lover.
LEADERSHIP reports that the abducted 14-year-old Ese Oruru
was freed from her ‘husband-abductor’ on Monday, following the orders of the
emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, and the inspector-general of police,
Solomon Arase.
The pathetic story of Oruru elicited outrage on social media
among Nigerians as they called for her immediate freedom and prosecution of
those complicit in her ordeal.
Ese was 13 at the time of her alleged abduction by Yunusa
who ferried her to Kano and kept her as wife despite the girls’ parents calling
for her return. Ese’s parents had since last August made trips to Kano, trying
to retrieve their daughter.
The parents said they had involved the police, but efforts
to get the Emir to intervene were fruitless.
However, Nigerians took to the social media to launch a
campaign – #FreeEse, calling for the immediate release of the Urhobo-born
teenager, whose mother, Mrs. Rose Oruru, is a food vendor in Opolo, Bayelsa
State.
