Mrs Oruru speaks about her daughter’s abduction - Her forceful conversion to islam

The mother of the abducted Bayelsa girl Mrs
Rose Oruru has disclosed that Kano youths
were promised money, vehicles, houses if
they took and converted Christian girls to
Islam.

Ese’s mother made the revelation in the
interview granted to the Sun News on her
daughter’s abduction and rescuing operation.

Mrs Oruru while speaking about her trip to
Kano, said: ”When we arrived Kano, I had to
spend the night in the house of the boy that
took me there, because we arrived very late in
the night at past midnight. The next day, we
proceeded on the search for Ese.”

”Before we arrived Kano, I had received a call
from my daughter, asking me where we were
and I told her we were close to Abuja. She
advised me to stop at Abuja and spend the
night with my sister, as according to her, they
would kill me if I came to Kano that night.

“She said they had taken her photograph and
converted her to Islam and wore her the hijab
because the Emir Sanusi promised them that
anybody that brought a Christian girl from
another state and converted her to Islam
would be rewarded with money, given a
house, jeep and earn a salary, among other
goodies. She said all the people were
celebrating with Yinusa. Still on our way, the
man who was taking me to Kano got a call
and told me it was Yinusa, but that I should
not mind him.

”In Kano, in the morning, I asked him to take
me to the parent of Yellow, but he said we
would first go to the house of the chief and
that when we get there the chief would hand
over my daughter and we would leave Kano
the next day. When we got to the chief’s
house, the boy narrated why he came with me
and the chief was so angry and started
abusing him. I knew he was abusing him
because he spoke little English and Hausa. At
that point, I got on my knees and pleaded with
him to help me because my husband had
driven me out of the house, asking me never
to come back until I produced his daughter.

He called me useless woman and asked which
child did I keep here, that my child has been
converted to Islam and I will never see her
again”.

Ese Oruru was abducted from her mother’s
shop in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state in August
2015 by a keke (tricycle) operator known as
Yinusa Yellow.

Yinusa reportedly took Ese to Kano state,
converted her to Islam, renamed her “Aisha”
and subsequently married her.
The conversion and marriage happened in the
palace of the Emir of Kano II.