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Ese Oruru’s lover, Yunusa goes home

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8 years ago

July 11, 2016

Reprieve has come the way of Yunusa Dahiru, aka Yellow, after he was freed from detention after trial following his abduction and forced marriage of 14-year-old Ese Oruru- a case which caught national attention.

According to reports, Yunusa has now returned to his family in Kano in the company of his defence lawyers after spending over four months cooling his heels at the Okaka Prisons in the Bayelsa State capital of Yenagoa.

Read also: Ese Oruru: Yinusa’s sick SAN pushes trial to Sept 13

Reports also revealed that a Bayelsa indigene stood as surety for the suspect contrary to the belief that no one from the state could stand for him due to ethnic and religious sentiments being whipped up.

Before now, Yunusa’s team of lawyers had fought tooth and nail to free him from prison since March without success, following stringent bail conditions handed down to the suspect by Justice Ajiya Nganjiwa of the Federal High Court, Yenagoa.

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