ESE ORURU: MAN WHO ABDUCTED A TEENAGER IN YENEGOA AND TAKEN TO KANO AND FORCED TO MARRIAGE SENTENCED TO 26 YEARS IN PRISION

The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has delivered the long-awaited judgement on Ese Oruru, a teenager reportedly abducted, taken to Kano State and forced into marriage by one Yinusa Dahiru.
The court presided over by Justice Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison.

Jane acquitted Dahiru on Count one but jailed him five years (count two), seven years (count three) seven years (count four) and seven years, count five.

In 2015, 13-year-old Oruru was abducted, raped and impregnated by Yunusa Dahiru, a man presumably old enough to be her father.







                                                                        

The man later took her away to Kano State where she was later rescued in the palace of the Emir of Kano. 
The incident led to national outrage in 2015 with calls for more of forcefully married teenagers in the Northern part of the country to be freed.
The sentences, according to the judge. would run concurrently.