The
father of the young Hausa man who allegedly abducted a young Bayelsa
girl to Kano and forcefully converted and married her, has opened up
about how events unfolded.
Dahiru Bala, the father Yunusa Yellow, the alleged abductor of
Bayelsa teenager, Ese Oruru, on Wednesday gave details of how his son
met and took the teenager to Kano in 2015.
Speaking with Premium Times, in his Tofa village home in Kura Local
Government Area of Kano State that sometime in 2015 his son called to
inform him about his plan to come with Miss Oruru from Bayelsa State.
“When he told me about the plan to come with a girl from Bayelsa to Kano, I asked him not to,” the man said.
“But he insisted that Aisha had become a Muslim, fell in love
with him and wanted to marry him. I still warned him against coming with
her,” he said.
Mr. Yunusa’s father said his son, being the domestic servant of the
Orurus, fell in love with their daughter and that both agreed to travel
to Kano.
“Yunusa ran errands for Aisha’s family and at the same time
riding commercial motorcycle to earn a living. They fell in love in the
house and eloped to Kano,” he said.
Mr. Bala said while he had strictly opposed his son’s decision to
come to Kano with Miss Oruru, his son informed him that the girl had
threatened to commit suicide if she was not allowed to travel with
Yunusa to Kano.
This is the house Ese spent her first night in Kano
He said Ese decided to travel because he was afraid Yunusa was getting married to another person in Kano.
“Still, I warned him against coming with her,” the father said.
“Surprisingly, the boy called me the following day to announce
his arrival with Aisha, saying they were on their way to my house.
“On hearing this, I then quickly rushed to our village head to inform him about the development.
“The village head then said I should take them to his house
immediately after arrival. They arrived late at night, so she passed the
night in my house.
“The following day, we went together to the village head of
Tofa, who then led us to the house of his superior, the district head of
Kura.
“On arrival at Kura, the district head studied the case and ordered that we be taken to the emir’s palace in the city.
“When we arrived at the palace, the emir was away in Saudi
Arabia, but the Wambai of Kano [a senior councillor in the palace],
directed a palace guard to take us to Shari’ah commission office. Aisha
was then taken into custody by the Shari’ah office.
“From that day, the officials kept calling to draw our attention that she cried every day that she wanted to see my son.
Yunusa's mother
“On Thursday same week, the family of Ese arrived from Bayelsa
and on Friday the Emir came back from Saudi Arabia. Emir looked at the
complication of the case and after interviewing the family of Ese, who
told him that she was still 14 years old and she could not decide for
herself, and since Ese was crying that her family might kill her because
she converted to Islam, the Emir ordered that we were taken to the
police office [Zone 1 Police Headquarters, Kano].
“At the police office, and before Ese’s family, the girl cried
that her life was in danger and that she rather died than go back with
her family. In sympathy, the police said Aisha should be taken back to
Kura.
“Back in the village, I took her to the house of the district
head. I refused to let them stay together in my house since they were
not married.
“The district head then enrolled her in both Western and Islamic schools,” Mr. Bala said.
According to him, Miss Oruru accepted Islam in the house of the district head.
Miss Oruru was reunited with her family on Wednesday, following the
intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, who
ordered that she should be taken to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital where her mother joined her from Bayelsa.
source: premium times
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