Emir Of Kano’s Authority, Police Collaboration: 7 Issues That Stand Out In #FreeEse (READ)

by Carol Ajie

In 2015 when schoolgirls were abducted by terrorists from Chibok Secondary School, it became a campaign issue for the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party of the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II and the current president, General Muhammadu Buhari.

I have reports of some persons in government seeking to help in this matter of the abduction of a 13-year-old Ese Rita Oruru from Bayelsa State to Kano State where she is being held in a forced child marriage having been forced to convert to Islam by her abductors.

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One has to wonder why the abduction of girls by Boko Haram, whose location were untraceable and remain untraceable still was a big campaign issue to #BringBackOurGirls, then why is the matter of Ese Rita Oruru, whose location is known to the government, known to the Emir of Kano, whose abductors remain are defiant about releasing her and throwing up all sorts of stories, not a campaign issue? #BringBackOurGirlsFromKano.

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Seven key issues stand out in this matter.

1. That Mallams come to the South and abduct under-aged girls for the purpose of marrying them off in Kano.
2. That Kano is now a haven for forced child marriages, a crime punishable by law
3. That abductees’ parents cry to the Emir Sanusi and the Police and nothing has been done to rescue their daughter whose address is known to the Emir and the Police.
4. They said if your girls return, their parents would beat them? Why is the alternative to a parent’s discipline forced marriage and continuous rape? But why incapacitate young girls?.
5. That Emir Sanusi remarkable royalty now a weak Emir unable to enforce his ‘royal decree’ to return stolen girls – This would never have happened during the reign of His Highness Dr Ado Bayero.  His gentle soul R.I.P
6. That although abduction is a crime committed by these known criminals in Kano, the police looked away and still does. This is tantamount to state sponsorship of kidnapping, modern day slavery, and “religious terrorism” with all due respect.
7. That some licentious citizens of a great country are giving a good religion, Islam a bad name.

Emir Sanusi former Governor of CBN one time hero of gender struggles styled “activist Governor” and “honorary woman”. A traditional ruler should lead by example and modernize his or her stool, not degenerate it.

As you have the contact of the parents and victims kidnapped and detained by some residents of Kano,  please slate a date for the Kids’ return home to their parents in Bayelsa and other States this week in the presence of civil society members, journalists and concerned citizens.

Please #BringBackOurGirls!

Carol Ajie is a human rights attorney. She can be reached by email HERE.

The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.