BREAKING News: Abducted Teenage Bayelsa Girl Leaves Kano Under Tight Security
The
teenager who was abducted from her Bayelsa home and moved to Kano for a
forced marriage, has left Kano and is on her way to the police
headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria's capital,
Miss Ese Oruru
According to Rabilu Ringim, the spokesperson for the Zone 1 Police
Command in Kano, Ese Oruru, the teenager who was abducted from her
Bayelsa home and moved to Kano for a forced marriage to Yunusa Yellow,
has left Kano by road at 6 a.m and on her way to the police headquarters
in Abuja.
He disclosed that the team comprised of an assistant commissioner
of police and other top ranking officers who were travelling under tight
security.
"They are on their way already, and the parents are expected in
Abuja today where they would be reunited. She is being taken to Abuja
based on the express instruction of the IG," Mr. Ringim said.
Ese's parents in Bayelsa
The police spokesperson said Miss Oruru was taken for thorough
medical check late Monday night to enable her to commence her journey
back home early on Tuesday morning, adding on telephone that the
teenager indeed claimed she was 17 in several conversations with the
police.
He said she also claimed she feared for her life if allowed to
return to her parents in Bayelsa, but that the Assistant Inspector
General of Police in charge of the Zone, Shuaibu Gambo, assured that no
one would harm her.
Ese on her way to Abuja (Photo: Premium Times)
It can be recalled that Miss Oruru was abducted from her Bayelsa
home about eight months ago, and her parents, after trailing her to
Kano, battled for months to have her back. They did not succeed.
Her case however caught the attention of the Nigerian authorities
and citizens after the Punch newspaper did a detailed story on the
matter on Sunday.
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