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Breaking… Ese Oruru regains freedom!

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Incoming reports suggests that 14-year-old Miss Ese Oruru who was abducted last year by a Kano based man identified as Yinusa has been freed after the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase.

It was gathered that arrangements had been made for her family to reunite with Ese, who hails from Uwherun town in Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, in Abuja, by Mr Arase.

This is even as the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, blamed police over the failure to return the girl to her family.

According to him, “I ordered Ese’s repatriation since September 2015, through the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 1. But to my surprise, the issue is still hanging between the Sharia commission, Hisbah and police. “Police are those behind this delay. I have done my best for her. It is unfortunate that the police are delaying this matter.

“I received phone calls from friends outside the shores of this country over Ese. What I knew was that the matter is something I had settled six months ago.”

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Her father Mr. Charles Oruru who expressed gratitude to the media and civil society groups who had taken the course to secure the release of Ese said, “Without the support of the media and civil society groups, there is nothing I could have done. Left to the police, the matter would have died a natural death and she would have been lost in Kano. We are praying for her return so that we can all celebrate.

“If they bring my daughter back successfully, I will be very happy. I am like a fish out of water. I have not been myself since she was forcibly taken away from us.

“Whenever I think of her, I shed tears. She is only a minor. She was taken away when she was 13 years old, but she is now 14. I do not have many children and the few I have, I make sure I take good care of them because I know they will be great in future.”

Her abductors had earlier rebuffed efforts by her parents to secure her release after they converted the teenager to Islam, renamed her Aisha and betrothed her to Yinusa.

 

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