It is high time all these abductions of our under-age
girls must stop. According to the news filtered out, Patience Paul Idaji, 14,
who was kidnapped in Sokoto is now in Sultan’s palace.
Patience, a primary six pupil of Mohammed Zako Model
Primary school, Sokoto, was alleged to have been kidnapped by two of their
neighbours and allegedly taken to the Sultan’s palace.
Patience’s elder brother, Paul Isaac Idaji,28, eldest
among nine kids, an indigene of Ochobo in Ohimini Local Government area of
Benue State, said that Patience had been missing since August 12, 2015.
Paul said: “We got information that she was in the
Sultan’s palace and the last time we went there we did not find her there.”
He said that some people told them that they saw Patience
at the Sultan’s palace. He alleged that other girls, like patience, were camped
in the palace.
One of those Paul alleged to have abducted Patience,
Umar Dauda Gada, said he and other members of the Hisbah
were going to take legal action again Paul. According to him, they didn’t even
know of any Patience, let alone to have abducted her.
Speaking further, Paul said: “We went there to see if she
had been taken there. Even her friend who used to be a Christian was found
there. She was taken there and they converted her. We’ll continue to search for
her. We’ll not give up. We want the world to help us so that Patience can be
released to us.”
Paul further explained: “She was abducted by two of our
neighbours. We went there after people saw her. But as of last week, she was no
longer there. Police tried to investigate, but along the line, they backed off.
My parents had been running around over the matter. Police even arrested the
men. They testified. It was first reported at Cony police division. The last
time we went to the Sultan’s palace, to ask about her, it was a different girl
they brought out for us. It’s possible they may have moved her to another
location. I went to school and my dad went to work. I returned from school and
heard she had disappeared.”
Paul has promised to furnish New Telegraph with petition
written to police after abduction of Patience.
Apparently determined to
locate his missing sister at all cost, Paul posted an SOS on Facebook.
Gada said: “ It’s a false allegation. It came to my
notice on Tuesday evening. We are staff of Sokoto State Hisbah Commission. It’s
not a nongovernmental organization. It’s a state law enforcement agency. We
shall our name on social media that we kidnapped a girl called Patience Paul
and took her to Sultan’s palace.”
He said they had taken steps to investigate and
discovered that there was no Patience Paul in the Sultan’s palace.
He further said that Hisbah and the state government even had a meeting over
the matter yesterday.
He added: “Whoever posted that, was trying to tarnish the
image of Islam, Hisbah, Sokoto State and the Sultan. We can’t fold our hands
over this. It’s a serious allegation. Someone just sat down and fabricated
this.”
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