A chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Aviation Minister, Fani Kayode, has on Wednesday, March 2  indicted the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who he said played a significant role in the abduction of the 14 years old Ese Oruru, in August 2015.

Fani-Kayode stated this in an opinion piece titled, “Ese Oruru, Emir of Kano and those distorting the narrative”, insisting that Emir Sanusi, has a case to answer based on the role he played on the abduction.

The former Aviation Minister therefore described the act as; “abduction, kidnapping, human trafficking, slavery, rape, impunity, wickedness and ritual sex.”

Ese was allegedly abducted on August 12, 2015, by one Yinusa, alias Yellow, who planned to convert her to a Muslim.

Ese’s mother, Rose Oruru, who is a food vendor had since last August made trips to Kano, where they unraveled the plights of their daughter until her daughter’s release on Tuesday.

Reacting, Fani Kayode said: “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 that she had never been before on the other side of the country.

“This is not a love story about two inseparable young people: it is a story about pedophilia, child abduction, kidnapping, human trafficking, slavery, rape, impunity, wickedness and ritual sex and Emir Sanusi has a case to answer.

“That little girl has been raped over and over again and she may well have aids, VVF or some other strange sexual disease by now.”

He added, “Meanwhile I just watched an AIT video in which 14 year old Ese Oruru’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. If what she has said is true it also proves that the Emir is not only a practicing pedophile, but also a very sick man and he 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?

“There is clearly a conspiracy of silence about the perpetuation of evil in this country amongst the ruling elite.

 

“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 that 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 at home with her family today. Instead she would have still been in slavery and captivity at the Emir of Kano’s palace.

“Not even the Federal Government, the 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.”