Forced marriage: Emir, police tangled in another 13y.o. abduction

A 13 years old minor, Alheri Bawa has been abducted in Bauchi State evidently for forced marriage, Elombah.com has learnt.

Photo: A man identified as Yunusa from Kano state, was accused of kidnapping and forcefully converting and marrying a 13 year old girl, Ese Oruru.

She was abducted by one Mallam Dauda Buba, who lives adjacent Nehima Clinic, GRA, Bauchi State.

Investigations have revealed that the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Suleiman Yakubu, is aware of the case.

He reportedly said that the victim’s father should forget about the return of his daughter. 

Further complicating the matter, the Bauchi State Police Command, GRA Division Headquarters Bauchi says it is incapacitated to do anything.

The policeman in charge of the case, Inspector Abdulraman Dass, told the minor’s father that only the Bauchi State Sharia Commission GRA Bauchi can release the girl from her abductor.

Lamenting his ordeal to Secret Reporters, the father of the minor, Pastor Bawa Buba said Mallam Dauda abducted his daughter.

When he approached him and tried getting back his daughter, Dauda told him his 13 year daughter has been converted to Islam and married off.

Pastor Buba is a former pastor of RCCG Miya and presently an ordained Elder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Miya, Bauchi State.

Furthermore, the police Division DCO, ASP Joseph dismissed the family from the station and asked them to go to Court.

That was after they had agreed to release the girl, when Dauda Buba the abductor came to the station and spoke with the policemen.

They, however, rescinded when the abductor called the Sharia Commission.

The Sharia Commission came to tell the policemen that the girl cannot be released to the father. 

The victim’s father has since returned to his village, Behind Miya Central Mosque, Miya, Ganjuwa LGA Bauchi State.

That was because he is unable to secure the release of his daughter.

He also lacks money to hire a lawyer due to the complicity of the police and the involvement of the Emir of Bauchi.

Recently, young Rita Oruru made headline when his abductor took him to far away Kano after abducting her from her home in Bayelsa State.

With this latest development, one can easily conclude that the child marriage currently bedeviling Nigeria, may not end soon.

More so when the country’s police continues to compromise on the child right issue. 

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