Fifteen-year-old Patience Paul, the
schoolgirl allegedly abducted in Sokoto and
forcefully converted to Islam, has
recounted how she was abducted, held in
captivity and sexually abused for seven
months in Sarkin Baki (king of strangers’)
residence in Sokoto State.
Patience, who hails from Benue State,
went missing on August 12, 2015. But
reprieve came the way of the kidnapped
girl and her family after the Sokoto State
governor, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,
ordered an investigation into the matter,
which resulted in her release and
subsequent reunion with her family.
LEADERSHIP gathered from Patience that
her abductor and some Hisbah (Sharia
police) personnel had taken her to an imam
in Runjin Sambo area of Sokoto with a
claim that she wanted to convert to Islam.
Patience said, “I was sent to buy biscuits
and on my way I saw him (her abductor)
and he persuaded me to come to his
bungalow.”
The primary six pupil disclosed that she was
not forced into marriage but that her
abductor turned her into a sex slave at the
house of the Sarkin Baki.
“Yes, he was forcefully making love to me
any time he wanted,” she answered to a
question on whether she was sexually
abused. “They first took me to Sarkin Baki
house, and kept me there for seven months
before my parents came looking for me.
“They gave me something to drink, but I
refused to take the drink, and they took
me to one room and locked me inside the
room.
“They forcefully made me to turn to Muslim
and gave me another name, Aisha. Some
people wanted to marry me, but the Sarkin
Baki refused and said until I finish Islamic
school before they marry me off.
Addressing a press conference in Kaduna, a
lawyer with a Jos, Plateau State-based
non-governmental organisation (NGO),
Voice for the Girl’s Child Foundation
(VGCF), Barrister Ezekiel Dyagas, who
helped in securing Patience’s release, said
he was briefed about her case on March 1,
2016, by her brother.
Barrister Dyagas said: “Her brother, who
is here with me, has been up and doing
since the family realised that the little girl
was missing and eventually abducted by one
of her neighbours.”
“I promised the family to give me 48 hours
and we would be able to trace her
whereabouts. I posted her story on the
website and you will not believe the
response I got.
“Within that 48 hours I was talking to the
Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Aminu
Tambuwal, and I told the girl’s brother
that the governor will call him,” he said.
The lawyer praised Tambuwal for ensuring
the girl was released to her family.
“In fact, the governor not only called, but
he played a vital role towards the freeing
of Patience. He acted as a father and we
appreciate his role. In short, he was
instrumental to her eventual release.
“As I am talking to you, those behind her
abduction in Sokoto had been arrested and
are going to face prosecution soon,” he
said.
He also declared that he is taking the
young girl to Benue State on Tuesday on
the request of the state government who
had also shown interest in her case.
“Since, the commencement of the saga, I
have had contact with the state
commissioner for women affairs and youth
development, and I will not tell you what
the state government had promised to do
for Patience. If you want to verify, you
can call the commissioner.
Patience’s elder brother, Isaac Paul, 28,
who had just graduated from the
University of Sokoto and is awaiting NYSC
call-up, thanked Nigerians for assisting
the family to recover their daughter.
He said their mother was late while their
father worked as a steward in Sokoto,
adding that Patience is the sixth child in
the family of nine.
Paul also thanked journalists and the
Sokoto State government for wiping their
tears, just as he noted that the Benue
State government had promised to enrol
Patience in school.

source: http://www.leadership.ng/news/509478/abducted-abused-7-months-15-year-old-patience-paul

Forceful conversion to Islam n raping a hapless young girl can never go together. People should stop using religion to commit all sorts of evil. The guy is a rapist simple!