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Posted By: Dr Oludayo Tadeon: March 10, 2016In: LettersNo Comments Print Email
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SIR: What befell Nigeria as a result of the barbaric abduction of 14-year-old Ese Oruru to Kano by Yunusa Dahiru has further confirmed the notion that those in privileged positions of authority lack empathy. Their conspiracy of silence and nonchalant attitude even when the family concerned made frantic efforts to secure the release of their daughter is synonymous with erecting social, political and religious fences which was too high for the hapless Orurus to surmount. If Ese can be pregnant under eight months, let us be realistic, with two years down the line, the Chibok abductees who left as girls in 2014 must be mothers by now! This is the sad reality that we face as a nation which bends the law for politics and religion; the two subtle evils regularly deployed to under-develop and divide us.

Yunusa obviously understood his reasons for taking the actions. It was scripted and acted out very well. He was close to the family and still understood their routines even when he fell out of favour with Ese’s Mother. Working to answers, Yunusa sold his economic empowerment tool (tricycle), hypnotized/convinced/manipulated Ese and ran to Kano where he knew he would be welcomed as a victor! Why did he not marry her in Bayelsa if it was love-based? Kano is a safe-zone since the Child Rights Acts is not domesticated there.

The treatment meted out to the Orurus in Kano was less dignifying. It portrayed a system of injustice against the powerless and unconnected. More so, the agencies of government saddled with the responsibilities of protecting lives and properties became handicapped. The Emir of Kano and Inspector General of Police tried unsuccessfully to use techniques of neutralization to show they were responsive to Ese’s plight. The state has lost its capacity when the IGP had to wait for the return of an Emir from Umrah to free a Nigerian in bondage. The Emir claimed he only knew Ese was yet to be released when he was contacted by foreign media! Nigerian big men are good offshore not onshore. They are more responsive to foreign media outfits.

Yunusa is already arraigned in court and charged for abduction, illicit sex, coercion and sexual exploitation. This must be well prosecuted. All co-conspirators must be legally sanctioned. Otherwise, we would be institutionalizing a social order in which crime is the lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class and their cronies. Those who are to protect the vulnerable in our society are becoming collaborators with criminals; this is dangerous as it may lead to the rise of insurgent citizenship. Let those saying it is a tradition/culture in the North show me the daughter of a rich man that had been abducted and forcefully married as done to Ese!

Winston Churchill may not be wrong after all when he said that “rules are made for the obedience of the fools and the guidance of wise men”. We must speak against the Taliban treatment of the girl child. Let those in forceful child marriage speak against this evil. On a daily basis, criminal scripts of kidnapping, abduction, child marriage, and rape against the girl-child is written and acted out. It is becoming an organized crime. Yet, we make a mess of victims of these evil scripts by the way our criminal justice system is designed. Ese and her family deserve justice and they must get it.

nigeria which way?

shame leave dem dey catchh me

Something needs to be done about the lastest approach by boko haram people to islamisation.

The evil going on can never attract blessing to Nigeria. Wen God start now punishing the country, they will saw Y?

donjazzydon:
The evil going on can never attract blessing to Nigeria. Wen God start now punishing the country, they will saw Y?

evil plan of virgin hunters.

bodeloja:
nigeria which way?

yada ways! Nigeria is finished!

FemiFimile:


yada ways! Nigeria is finished!

u can say dat again.

One way or the other this evil must stop.