FROM Kano State came a troubling revelation at the weekend: alleged abduction of Christian girls and force­ful conversion to Islam.
The trend was already re­garded as a “regular occur­rence” and Christian leaders had already resigned to fate.
That was the scenario un­til a national outcry over the abduction of 14-year-old Ese Oruru changed all that.
Chairman of Kano State chapter of the Christian As­sociation of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Ransom Bello ex­pressed the association’s frustrations to Daily Sun and hoped that Oruru’s case will help shed light on abduc­tions and forced conversion of Christians in the state.
Speaking in an interview at the weekend, Bello said several efforts to stop the trend failed, until the Oruru case.
Miss Ese Oruru was ab­ducted by Inuwa Dahiru Bala from Bayelsa to Tofa Village in Kano State where she was forced to convert to Islam.
Belo said: “I think that what happened is like a vin­dication.
“The right thing is now being done. I say this be­cause we have witnessed a lot of similar situations in Kano State in the past. And many a time, our efforts to return the abductees to their families were unsuccessful. We just hit brick walls.”
He insisted that abduction and conversion of Christian girls, under different guises, including the intimidation of their relatives, was a ram­pant occurrence in the state.
“We have pursued such issues in the past without any success. Our ladies were abducted and we had to ap­proach the Islamic groups, for instance, the Hisbah Command, and nothing comes out of it.
“Sometimes, they keep the girl (s) with the Hisbah Command. Sometimes, they keep the girl(s) with the local chief of the affected areas, what they call Hakimi.”
Bello observed that many individuals, institutions and governance –actors, who had hastily declared their in­nocence and distanced them­selves from the present saga, may not be speaking the truth, saying they were well in the picture of the culture of faith- based abduction in the state, but did nothing much to discourage it.
The Bishop held that, “I don’t think they are re­ally innocent. Truth is truth. Justice must be seen to be done. How do you abduct even a daughter of a pastor? A pastor, his daughter, was abducted in Kano here and it was a tug of war ….I am not even sure how it was eventu­ally resolved.”
He regretted that these things happen because Chris­tians were in the minority in the state, adding that, “there was a limit to which anyone can push a matter of this na­ture; otherwise it might lead to religious crisis.”
“We want the other reli­gion to understand that what­ever they don’t want us to do them, they should not do it to us. I don’t think we will like to do that to any Muslim girl.
“We don’t abduct Muslim girls and then, force them into conversion. No! If you marry your wife properly, with all the consents that are needed and your wife decided to be a Christian or Muslim, so be it!

http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/abduction-of-christian-girls-regular-in-kano-can/

And this are the type of people our south western brothers worship

Abeg..... Make we just split.. Dem go always drag others backwards....

they never used the media in the past

And u called dat a religion?

ozy4christ:
And u called dat a religion?

A peaceful one sef

Am a witness. It's a regular thing right here in kaduna state too.
Countless number of christian families have resigned to fate cos Sharia, hisba, sarkis and muslims believe it carries a huge reward in Al-janna!
Demonic concept, really!

Not good enough by CAN. Give authorities a list of every documented case for follow up.
You are looking like part of the cover up.
Please BBOG.