The Muslim community in the Central Mosque, Uwani area of Enugu South Local Government Area within the Enugu metropolis have appealed to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase and the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Nwodibo Ekechukwu to quickly intervene for the release of , Ifesinachi Ani, 16, her father, Sunday Ani,59, and one Ifeanyi Haruna who have been detained at Uwani Police Station, Enugu since Monday.
The Muslims community who spoke through one of their key leaders, the federal Commissioner representing the South-East Zone in the National Hajj Commission, Abuja, Alhaji Ibrahim Ezeani, said the continued detention of the teenager, her father and Mr. Ifeanyi Haruna - a good Samaritan, who brought the girl from Abuja to see her in Enugu, was quite unfair since they voluntarily made themselves available to the police.
Alleging that the police demanded N50,000 from Ani as fare with which to convey the three persons to the Force Headquarters, Abuja where Mrs. Ani had claimed that her husband died and that her daughter was abducted and forced into Islam, Alhaji Ezeani said it was the duty of the police to transport the persons under their custody to Abuja.
The Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ebere Amaraizu confirmed the incident but denied accusation of N50,000 demand said to be made by the police, saying there was no basis for such demand.
"I am aware of the matter. The police would like to know the truth of the matter because people have made claims.It is left for the police to know whether the claims are true or false," Amaraizu said.
Recently, the media reported the story of one Ifesinachi Ani,16, now renamed Amalatulla following her said conversion to Islam. She hails from Amechi Uwani community in Enugu South LGA of Enugu State but resides with her mother and other siblings in Abuja.
Ifesinachi’s mother, Mrs Ani reportedly ran away with her children from her matrimonial home in Enugu since about five years now and ended up living with her sister in Abuja, according to Mr Ani, who spoke in an interview with Daily Trust in Enugu.
Ani said it was wrong of his wife to have informed people that her husband (Ani) was dead apparently to win public sympathy, even when he (Ani) is still alive.
“It was while in Abuja that Ifesinachi converted to Islam,” said Ani, who said he had not set eyes on his daughter since his wife ran away from his house, except now that she was brought to Enugu.
Ani said he is not against his daughter converting to Islam, but insisted that he would like to be communicating with her occasionally.
Daily Trust gathered that an Aba-based Muslim convert and trader who hails from Ogidi in Anambra State, Mr. Ifeanyi Haruna had ran into Amalatulla at Abuja, and acting as a good Samaritan, opted to bring the teenager to her father in Enugu to tell him that she was not abducted and was not forced to embrace Islam.
When Haruna handed Amalatulla to the Muslim community to contact the father, Mr. Ani, the community, first of all contacted the police at Uwani to avoid any suspicion in the girl’s movement from Abuja to Enugu, Daily Trust was informed.
However, upon getting to the station, Haruna, Amalatulla and her father, Mr. Ani, had been kept behind the counter since Monday without any formal charge made against them.
Alhaji Ezeani said: “The police should please release this girl to her father who has been desiring to see her over the years, so that the father can take custody of the daughter. This is why we appeal to the IGP, Solomon Arase, and the Enugu State Commissioner of Police, to intervene and secure the release of these three persons before the issue will take another dimension.
“And we in the Muslim community, Uwani are saying that the police should actually do what is needful. If the thing has become a news item, then the news now is that the girl is talking by herself that she voluntarily decided to become a Muslim and would like to be left to be a Muslim. She desires to see her father; she was never abducted; she should be free from encumbrance and so would like to see her father.
And now she is saying why should the police detain me for coming to tell my father that I was not kidnapped?”

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Lalasticlala dem don see your sister o....... Do the needful.

What Have I Just Read......?

The case is getting stranger by the day....

1.We were informed that the girl was kidnapped

2.Then we were informed that she was taken by some emir.

3.Now they tell us she wants to meet her dad?

4.Now the mother is not a widow....but separated?

You know what.....when people lie to us in this country to play tribal games, they should be careful. Because....honestly, we have lost thousands because of lying in the past. This has to end please.

And all those people who were shouting about plans by North to get the Southerners.....una see your life?

Original thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2986977/ifesinachi-ani-kidnapped-abuja-converted

I am really upset that in this country people can fall for lies so easily.