Friday Olokor, Jos
A 13-year-old, Hauwa Dadi, on Sunday regained her freedom, four canicule afterwards actuality allegedly abducted for the purpose of banishment her into a marriage.
Hauwa, an SS1 apprentice of the Brighter Academy Secondary School, Gashua, is a babe of a above Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria.
She was abducted and allegedly kept at the alcazar of the Emir of Gashua for ‘Islamic evangelism.’
Hauwa was, however, appear on Sunday from the alcazar of the Emir, Alhaji Abubakar Suleman.
A civilian rights organisation, Stefanos Foundation, which blew the lid off the declared artifice to force the jailbait into marriage, had vowed that it would accompany the case till the babe was released.
The Executive Director of SF, Mark Lipdo, had afresh appealed to the accordant authorities “to footfall in and advice this poor woman who has been nursing her ailing bedmate for the accomplished six years.”
Hauwa’s ancient brother, Jonathan Dadi, bankrupt the annual of her absolution to Northern City Annual in Jos on Sunday.
He said, “Thank you, Mr. Journalist, acknowledge you, The PUNCH. I am admiring to acquaint you that my sister has been appear to us.
“The Emir ordered that my sister, Hauwa Dadi, should be appear to us. But we active an adventure that she should not be punished. We accept aloof larboard the Emir’s palace. I will alarm you after to accord you the details.”
Our contributor appear that the Christian association and Evangelical Church Winning All in the Bade Local Government Breadth of Yobe State had been befuddled into confusion, afterward the abduction of the teenager.
When contacted, the Gashua Badge Breadth Commander, Joseph Aloefuna, accepted that the case was brought to his ability by the Gashua Divisional Badge Officer.
He said, “I wasn’t anon complex but the DPO said he was complex and he accepted that he was arrive into the matter.
“There was this boy who was said to accept insisted on marrying the babe (Hauwa). They are in the aforementioned school. The amount was appear to the academy administration and the boy was punished and warned to stop afflictive the girl.
“Later, the babe was abducted and the boy was the prime suspect. The boy was arrested but claimed that the babe ran to the Emir’s alcazar because she capital to catechumen to Islam.
“The Emir took her to the Chief Imam; the Chief Imam said the babe was afraid but he was asked to booty her to the abundance admiral instead of befitting her in his custody.
“We took the annual of everybody concerned. The Chief Imam said there was activity to be a affair on the matter,” Aloefuna explained.
Before her release, the mother of the girl, Deborah, had, in an interview, accustomed a abundant annual of how the abduction artifice was perfected.
She said, “On Thursday afternoon, I had a affair in ECWA Church, Gashua. Her accompanying brother, Zachariah, took barrow to aback baptize for us. My babe removed her uniform, put on her claimed clothes and left. Aback one of her sisters asked her breadth she was going, Hauwa said she was activity to aback baptize with Zachariah and disappeared.
“But afore the incident, there has been one boy who claimed to adulation her and capital to ally her. He told her to catechumen to Islam.”
The mother said aback she went to attending for her babe in the area, she heard that she had been abducted by her neighbours and was taken to the Imam of Gashua, Babu Alkali Mamman.
She afresh appear the amount to one Inspector Melody Habila at the Gashua Badge Command.
But aback Imam Alkali was arrive to the badge command, he pleaded to be accustomed to booty the Jumma’at prayers afore advancing but he never came.
Instead, the Imam’s advocate after came to the badge base and arrive Deborah to the Emir’s palace.
When Deborah went to the palace, she was asked to appear back, but on extensive there at 4pm, she was neither accustomed her babe nor accustomed to see the Emir again.
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