BY FEMI FANI KAYODE
ESE ORURU
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? The famous high society blogger and respected
celebrity Miss Linda Ikeji has just exposed yet another case. This time it is a
young 17 year old christian girl, by the name of Miss Patience Paul, who has
been abducted from her home, parents and loved ones in Benue state, forcefully
taken to Sokoto, locked up in the Sultan’s palace and kept there against her
will.
The same thing happened to a 13 year old christian igbo girl by the name
of Miss Charity Uzoechina two years ago when she was abducted, islamised, raped,
married off and forced to remain in the Etsu Nupe’s palace in Minna, Niger
state. This was despite the fact that her parents went to the police and
authorities and made every effort to get her back. Sadly up till today they
have never seen her again. 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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