ESE ORURU - CHILD ABDUCTION
All those that are attempting to
distort the narrative about the tragic plight of Miss Ese Oruru are evil and we
commit them to God’s judgement. The facts are as follows. She is 14 years old
and not 18 and she was abducted from her home. She did not leave her home
freely or of her own volition. She was cruelly and wickedly carried away and
stolen from her parents, family and loved ones and forcefully taken by complete
strangers to a distant land. This was a land that she had never seen or been
before and which was on the other side of the country.
The truth is that this is not a love
story about two inseparable young people: it is rather a sad and tragic tale
about pedophilia, child abduction, kidnapping, human trafficking, slavery,
rape, impunity, wickedness, religious bigotry and ritual sex.
Worse still it is an unfolding drama at the
end of which Emir Sanusi Lamido may well have a case to answer. The truth is
that that little girl would have been raped over and over again and she may well
have Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) or
some other strange sexual disease by now. She may also be pregnant.
Instead of sympathizing with her and
considering the fact that she may never be the same again in view of the
physical and mental torture and trauma that she has been subjected to over the
last few months, some misguided souls and shameless commentators have the
temerity to come to social media and say that she was old enough to “get it”
whilst others say that she ”loved it” and ”wanted it”. I am utterly disgusted
and appalled by these sentiments. Where is the humanity of those that speak and
think like this? Where is their compassion and where is their soul? May God
judge them and may their own infant daughters be abducted, forcefully
Islamised, raped, enslaved and kept against their will as a sex slave in an
Emir’s palace in the same way that Ese was.
Meanwhile I just watched an AIT
video in which Ese’s mother claimed that her daughters abductors said that it
was the Emir of Kano himself that ordered her daughters abduction and that she
was kept in his palace for over one year for his pleasure.
If this is true it confirms the suspicion that
the Emir is culpable. Again if what she has said is true it also proves that
the Emir is not only a praticing pedophile but also a very sick man who must be
held accountable. It is important that Emir Sanusi clears the air and tells us
precisely what he did with this little girl otherwise we are entitled to assume
the worse and believe what Ese’s mother has told us.
Quite apart from that we are
compelled to ask whether this sort of thing has happened before and how
widespread it is? How many other little girls have been stolen from their homes
and forced to join harems all over the nation?
Evidently we live in a strange country where evil is
swept under the carpet and often justified. We live in a country where those
that expose such abominations and speak truth are demonised, hated, despised
and, more often than not, threatened with violence, persecution, intimidation,
arrest, spurious criminal investigations and baseless civil court actions. More
often than not this is the price for speaking truth and exposing the evil in
Nigeria. There is clearly a conspiracy of silence about the perpetuation of
evil in this country amongst the ruling elite. The feeling is that anyone can
get away with anything providing they belong to a particular circle and class
and providing they have money and power. And it is because they have money and
power and they have powerful friends in government and in the political class
that they feel that they can kill, silence, crush, abduct, cripple, ruin, sue
and jail anybody that tests their will and crosses their path or that exposes
the truth about their blood-chilling and perverse ways. That is the reality of
Nigeria and it is a sad and sorry one. All I can say is thank God for the media
and particularly for the Punch newspaper who started the ball rolling last
Sunday.
If not for their cover story about Ese with all those pictures on their
front page the little girl would not be free and on her way home to her family
today. Instead she would have still been in slavery and captivity at the Emir
of Kano’s palace.
We should also thank the Nation newspaper particularly for
their timely editorial on this issue which was published on 1st March and which
raised some pertinent questions and offered wise counsel about the way forward.
The Punch, the Nation, AIT, Channels, Tribune, the Sun, Vanguard, Thisday and all
the other newspaper titles and television stations in the Nigerian media and
social media has done what no-one else or no other group could do.
Not even the
Federal Government, the various state governments, the political parties, the
politicians, the security agencies, the lawyers or the so-called human rights
groups could do what they managed to do or achieve what they have achieved.
They have helped to secure the freedom of a helpless and defenseless little
girl from slavery, torment, humiliation, destruction, death, disease and
bondage and they have brought her home safely to her parents. We need more of
this. Kudos to them and God bless them all. And may God damn and shame those
that chose to remain silent and look the other way.
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