Ese Oruru’s parents bemoan her ‘detention’ as court adjourns case to Dec

The adjournment of Ese Oruru’s abduction case to December 8, by the Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Monday, has seen her parents bemoaning her continued ‘detention’ in protective police custody.

The parents, Charles and Rose Oruru decried what they regarded as irony, a situation whereby the accused is enjoying freedom on bail while the victim is being deprived of freedom under the guise of protection.

Mr Oruru who was apparently unhappy with his daughter’s continued stay at the police officers mess when she ought to have been in school, appealed to Delta State government, the Federal Government and the world to come to their aid.

“My daughter has been yearning and even crying to go back to school as her classmates are now ahead of her, she has lost a whole year to this saga, and she is still in police protective custody while the accused is enjoying freedom on bail.

“Nowadays without education one is going nowhere, so she is not doing anything in their custody, while the accused moves freely and she is suffering there,” he said.

Also speaking, Ese’s mother said her daughter has not been receiving proper nutrition and psychological care in a homely environment as one nursing a baby.

She said, “People from Bayelsa have been assisting us and even the police officers; we want to leave there to our house because the (Police Officers Mess) is not a good place to stay and bring up a new born baby.  We stay with our trash bin which smells, we and the new-born baby are compelled to breathe the offensive smell.

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“So the world should note that we are being marginalised for no reason, as the boy Yunusa still owes me some money after taking my daughter to Kano to impregnate her for me.”

Kayode Olaosebikan, lawyer to the accused, who was in court with Yunusa, now out on bail, said no reason was given for the court’s failure to sit. He however said that the case was adjourned till December 8 for further hearing.

Ese 14, who was allegedly kidnapped by Yunusa Dahiru from Bayelsa and taken to Kano State where she was impregnated by her captor, gave birth to a baby girl on May 25 in police care at the Police Officers Mess in Yenagoa.

Yunusa Dahiru, who was charged before the Federal High Court in Yenagoa on March 8 on alleged criminal abduction, illicit sex, sexual exploitation and unlawful carnal knowledge of a minor, has been on bail while Ese remains in protective police custody.

 

 

 

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