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In spite of the huge national outcry in the wake of the Ese Oruru saga, it appears that Nigeria is still unable to deal with the patently criminal offence of abducting young girls, holding them incommunicado, forcibly converting them to Islam and marrying them off without the consent of their parents or guardians.

The latest case is that of Blessing Oshi, who was sent from Enugu State by her parents to live with relatives in Jos, Plateau State, in 2012 when she was nine. In August 2014, on the occasion of that year’s Sallah celebration, she disappeared. About a week later, her relatives allegedly got a call from an official of the Bauchi State Sharia Commission, informing them that Blessing was now in Bauchi, where she had willingly become a Muslim.

This was followed by a letter from the commission formally notifying her parents and guardian of Blessing’s supposed conversion and its decision to place her in the custody of the Da’awah Council Committee, apparently due to her allegation that her relatives had refused to allow her to practise her new religion. When Blessing’s father and two of his relatives went to Bauchi in an attempt to get her back, she refused to go home with them despite hours of pleading.

This latest episode in Nigeria’s tragic abduction saga is replete with all the usual elements: the targeting, kidnap, brain-washing and forcible conversion of a young girl without the knowledge or consent of her parents, and the utilisation of state institutions in enforcing clearly illegal actions.

Blessing was about nine when she first disappeared. As such, she was still under the authority of the guardian with whom she was staying in Jos. Since it is unlikely that she could have gone to Bauchi on her own, it is obvious that certain individuals or groups virtually abducted her, a criminal act that was apparently given sanction by the Bauchi State Sharia Commission working in tandem with the Da’awah Council Committee.

The commission and the committee are both guilty of exceeding their mandate at the very least, and criminal conspiracy, kidnapping and illegal detention at the very worst. Neither body is constitutionally empowered to facilitate the abduction or conversion of any Nigerian citizen, much less one well below the age of majority.

The fact that the two organisations did not even bother to conceal their actions is ample demonstration of their confidence in their ability to get away with what they did. This in turn points to a clear dereliction of duty on the part of the country’s security organisations, especially the Nigeria Police. When Blessing was first reported as missing, did the police investigate her disappearance properly? When the Sharia commission’s letter was received, what did the Plateau and Bauchi states’ commands do about it? Why was it so difficult for Blessing’s father to enforce his paternal rights when he went to Bauchi to claim his daughter?

If this abduction of female minors is not treated with all the seriousness that it deserves, it could metastasise into a cancer as serious as the Boko Haram insurgency. Police procedure dealing with such cases must be completely overhauled in order to make it easier for missing girls to be found. When they are located, they must be returned to the custody of their parents or legal guardians, and criminal proceedings instituted against the abductors and their collaborators.

Bodies like the Bauchi State Sharia Commission and the Da’awah Council Committee must be severely warned against interfering in the lives of other citizens, especially those who hold religious beliefs different from theirs. Their religious activism does not place them above the law.

Only a hypocritical nation laments the abduction of the Chibok girls by terrorists while pretending not to see the abduction of other girls by kidnapping rings masquerading as religious advocacy organisations.

This is pathetic, how can a minor willingly convert to Islam if not under some influence of black magic. This people are heartless

But in the first place, Sharia court is not supposed to entertain the issues of the christians. Gradual steps being taken to islamise the country but they will surely fall.

This illegal and very wicked practice has been going on for a long time, silently.
They believe they can spread the religion to the south by indoctrinating female minors, get them married off to one of theirs, and eventually have her mix with her people much later, to get converts.

This people play very mean, very dirty and very repulsive. That government and it's police force cannot seem to act against this still points to the fact that the country is a dead one. Impunity reign supreme here. To all those who keep screaming "one Nigeria!", enjoy the oneness, until perhaps, your under-aged daughter or sister gets abducted one day. Then the scales might fall off your eyes.

Dreal11247:
But in the first place, Sharia court is not supposed to entertain the issues of the christians. Gradual steps being taken to islamise the country but they will surely fall.

Surely fail how?
You must be kidding yourself. Perhaps you haven't heard how Turkey, one time the biggest forte for Christianity, was turned around. You don't stop a cancerous growth by praying and wishing. You need to surgically remove it.
Wherever this people are, they spread the seed of hate.
They will kill one of their own who is an adult and who willingly converts to Christianity, but they see nothing wrong in kidnapping a 9 year old girl, hide and forcibly convert her without the parents or guardian being aware, then marry her off without parental consent to one of their own. The government and police now seem helpless in the face of their sharia authority. Do you see why even the president one time advocated for the spread of sharia law across the country? Do you even think that he would condemn this practice if brought to his knowledge?

While anyone should be free to practice whatever faith or religion he desires, abducting under aged girls for forceful conversion and marriage is absolutely wrong in all ramifications. I know some Muslims who will cringe in horror at such a thing, but they are mostly not the sort of backward and evil people you guys claim to be your countrymen.

That's the breed of people you are sharing a "country" with.

Nigeria is in a mess. Everybody is chasing nothing but shadow. So Chibox was a Blue Print after all and Government fight for Fulani Herdsmen grazing lands in the States they don't belong was a ruse? What kind of life, law and Lord are we now serving? How can a responsible Nation and one that is as big as this Nigeria pretend to do nothing while the Country is burning with new style corruption, abduction and criminal imposition of strange abnormalities on our psyches? Nigeria is in a mess, in Recession, confusion and even depression. You want us to cooperate with PMB, he must improve his democratic practices and be civil.

Some muslims given me thousands of reasons to hate the religion. I know this are part of underground workings against the Christian community with the lmams, elders, emirs etc in support this evil. Forcefully, abducting little girl for marriage and converting to Islam by all means. What a stupid faith and religion of waste.

The hearts of men are wicked. What a country! They work disguisingly to achieve their mission - islamizing the nation.
The problem is that the so called South is not even united and the North may use that as advantage and means to carry out their mission

Crazy country

Lord lugard pack people wey their head correct and people wey their head no correct like sardine put together for one country.

I blame nobody but Lord lugard. I pray the devil and his children uses his soul to play ping-pong in hell.

FOR THE WORLD TO HAVE PEACE ISLAM MUST BE ANNIHILATED

God where are you? see how daughters are being rapped and incarcerate. May you o! Lord destroy the unity of this country and those who champion it , Amen. We can't continue like this.

This is where I get soo mad with ohaneze indi igbo, SE senators and house of rep members.And all the igbo stakeholders. How do u show u care for your people when you can't help them when they are helpless. The parents of these girls have been crying but bcuz they are poor, nobody listens. D sharia guyz now seem emboldened to carry these acts without fear. Stvpid ste of people.

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The saddest part of this man's evil against children is that some conservative estimates indicate that upwards of hundreds of thousands of little Chritian girls are right now in captivity in their own country. The leaders of the Christian Eastern Region are aware of this babaric, evil human wickedness, but they keep quite while litttle Christian girls suffer human degradation, rape, drugging, brainwashing, threat of death if they seek to escape or rejoin their parents.

So for the past two years no legal action was taking

And Gej was in government when these happened? Yet no one was able to cry out about this?

I smell lies.

shitty news, i guess she wanted it at first!!!

Why,why,why must everything news that comes from north be evil news,nawa oh,na only them waka cum

68816419:
shitty news, i guess she wanted it at first!!!

Dont you have any humanity in you? Do you have a 9 yr old relative who wants to convert to religion she does not understand? Do you have a sister or mother? if they suffered Blessing's faith would you this cold in your comment?

Remember law of Karma what goes around comes around!

Note that Punch reported that the 9 yr old was kidnapped after she was offered a SPELLED salla meat while she was celebrating salla with other kids in the neighborhood.... here is puch report

http://www.punchng.com/bauchi-sharia-body-holds-enugu-girl-11-two-years/

Wickedness. What does 9yrs old gal know?

sanandreas:
Wickedness. What does 9yrs old gal know?

It is sickening and unacceptable

Sharia should have no place in Nigeria laws

mesoprogress:
Sharia should have no place in Nigeria laws

Agreed