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 6.00 am for 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.
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. (Tori.ng)