By Uruakpa Friday U.
Daily Readers in this Country must have seen how both the Electronic and Print Media are awash with news of the alleged abduction of a 13 years old girl (now 14years old), Miss. Ese Oruru from Bayelsa State by her recalcitrant suspected boyfriend, Mr. Yunusa.
The news has brought to broad day light the lapses in our parental care, Security, weak leadership and of course, the entire system.
Looking at all this stories now, who do you think should be blamed? I personally think every name mentioned in this saga/game (the parent, Police, the Emirate Council etc) should take a portion of blame. Hence everybody is guilty.
Thank God for the Punch Newspaper campaign that took it on her shoulder to unravel the mystery behind this abduction saga.
We have been told that Ese was looking after her mother’s shop with her siblings while she (her mother) was away to market when the alleged abductor came and struck. Road side news has it that prior to this incident, the tricycle rider, Yunusa had been in a relationship of carrying this family (mother and children including Ese) to their shop where they sell food on daily basis. And suspicion is rife with the belief that love (or is it beauty) in the eye of the beholder has taken place between Ese and Yunusa. Then one should think that if the parents of Ese are the careful type, they would have, for long, noticed what was going on because it is possible to discover from the greetings and how Yunusa relates to Ese.
We have also been told that when the incident took place, the Emirate in Kano was quickly alerted. The Emir of Kano confirmed it when he said that he instructed the Emirate Council and the Police to track down the abductor.
Now, begin to ask questions on how and why the parents, the Emirate and the Police cannot get to the root of this matter since August 2015? A crime that was committed within Nigeria, (Bayelsa to Kano State). Why have they kept quiet and wanted this child trafficking, human right abuse issue to just die if the Punch Newspaper did not revisit the crime and started shouting? And they want us to believe that after instructing the Police to search for the missing girl and her abductor, there is no need to follow it up in order to be free from any blame.
The poor masses are in danger (BIG TROUBLE!) and it is only God who will help us. How have the Police done their bit? Is it by keeping quiet over their responsibility and are now torturing the parents of Ese to travel from Bayelsa Sate to Abuja to pick their child?
The handlers of this issue have not done well. They are careless about issues in the public domain. Now, a minor has been abused. Until a case of abduction is established, nobody can boldly call Yunusa an abductor. But did he actually convert the relationship to marriage and the laws of this land, the Emirate and Islamic Religion are watching?
We are yet to see and believe that Islam is against illegal marriage and abuse of the minor.