The police and the Kano state Sharia
commission are currently embroiled in a
blame game as to who should be held
responsible for the failure to return Ese
Oruru back to her hometown in Opolo,
Yanegua local government area of Bayelsa
state since August last year.
Ese Oruru was abducted from her Bayelsa
home, moved to Kano and allegedly forced
to marry one Yunusa Yellow.
According to Leadership, the assistant
inspector general of police (AIG) in charge
of Zone 1, Shuaibu Lawal Gambo, in a press
conference held at police zone 1
headquarters in Kano put the blamed on the
Kano state Sharia commission for
withholding Ese Oruru which restricted the
police from taking her back to her parents.
He said the commission failed to bring Ese
on a set date she was expected to be taken
back by the police to her parents in Bayelsa
as directed by the Kano emir.
The AIG confirmed he had obtained
information from his predecessor, AIG
Tambari Yabo, that the Kano emir,
Muhammad Sanusi II, had sent a delegation
made up of some members of the Sharia
commission and a representative of the
Kano emirate with a letter requesting the
police to take Ese Oruru back to her
parents.
“The delegation in the company of the girl
arrived very late in the evening to the Zone,
thus, it was rightfully agreed by all parties to
bring back Ese Oruru the following day for her
return back to Bayelsa, as Kano emir
requested”, he said.
Gambo however said the delegation failed to
return the girl as agreed for her trip back to
Bayelsa, which prompted the police to
innocently presume that the case had been
resolved by the Sharia commission through
alternative dispute resolution measures.
However, the director of theIslamic
Propagation of the Sharia commission,
Abduljabbar Uba Kabara, disputed the claim
of the police, saying the commission’s
officials were turned away from meeting
with the AIG when they came back with the
girl to follow up the matter.
Ese Oruru: “We’ll prosecute Yunusa’s father
if he’s found guilty”
“We returned to the Zone the second day as
agreed, alongside the lady and the father of
the boy and a delegation members.
Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to see the
AIG then, Tambari Yabo.
“I myself went to the zone the third day, but to
no avail, as the AIG refused to see me, despite
the fact that we obtained a copy of a paper
signed by the AIG, indicating that Sharia
Commission had received the lady”, he said.
Meanwhile, the inspector general of police,
Solomon Arase has directed the Sokoto state
police command to commence investigation
into another case of abduction of a teenage
girl, Patience Paul, who is being allegedly
held in the Sultan’s palace.
