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This story can not possibly be true, someone is only trying to be mischievous. No where in the world can this thing happen particularly sokoto where we have the largest concentration of churches in the heart of a muslims city.

That it's a fabricated piece by me or some mischievious prank by some unknown journalist working for some clandestine anti-Islamic paper?
Boy!It's for real and if displeased go to the newspaper office in Abuja and register your complaint!So Sokoto is a Muslim city?That smacks of religious bigotry and intolerance dear?And if so then why do you deny the story?

Kevin Aje can not be so ungrateful to the harmonious relationship he is enjoying since his installation in front of my family house, when i was just a little kids. i can remember dancing and running around with the celebration train then.

Harmonious?The chap made an obvious unsentimental statement.Devoid of spin and which reflects the sad reality on ground.Good for you~you probably got carried away with the music and the band!I wonder if you would allow your child to do same now?

The point is sokoto remains the most tolerant Muslims city in the whole country

With your new Sultan making inflammatory statements?Belloti seems to me you forget that you're with your peers on the www now,not some uninformed peasants down in your village!Your posts lack objectivity and rather not surprised though.Northern Nigeria is still very much in the mediaval times,no doubt,its leaders prefer serfdom for its people and religious bigotry rampant!I await your response. Salaam!

I guess all thses acts is in consonance with the Quran,they even had to wait for the Sultan!
OMG!

Ref:www.thenationonlineng.com

Almost convulsed with laughter!Modern day(medieval ) Northern Nigeria!

Boy, 13, abducted by fanatics to change faith, reunites with parents 19/3/2007


Beginning in November of last year, 13-year old Victor Udo Usen, a member of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Sokoto, went missing.

On February 20, news that young Victor was spotted in a Muslim neighbour’s house jolted his family. A young Christian girl had raced to the Usen’s home in the Mabera area of Sokoto with the news.

Victor’s mother, Esther, said that she ran to the house where her son had been seen. She met him, however, even as he was making frantic efforts to escape from the house where he had been held incommunicado for five months.

"I quickly held his hands and dragged him along with me towards our house." "But within a twinkle of an eye, I heard shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar (God is great)!’ I was shocked as I saw a large number of Muslims rushing towards us."

The mob surrounded them and snatched her son away from her, she said with tears in her eyes. Before she could send for her husband, who was not at home at the time, the mob, obviously of Islamic fundamentalists told her that her son was now a Muslim and that she and her husband were no longer his parents.

"They abducted him in November last year, and I only saw him today," she said. "How can someone force my son into his religion?"

Victor’s father, Udo Usen, said that when he received the distressed call from his wife, he rushed home only to discover that the boy had been abducted anew.

"I thought, ‘If I force myself into the house of that Muslim to get my son, I will not only be placing the lives of my family at risk but also creating room for them to attack other Christians in Sokoto,’" Usen said.

Instead, Usen contacted his pastor, and together they reported the matter to other Christian leaders – as well as to police and the state security service (SSS).

"The police told us that they cannot do anything at the moment until the Sultan of Sokoto, the leader of Muslims in Nigeria, returns from his trip," he said. "They have held this boy for six months without our consent. They have forced him into Islam. How can they do this to a 13-year old child?"

Esther Thomas Tambari, a Christian neighbour of the Usens, corroborated the facts of the abduction. "The Muslims, we learned, have changed Victor’s name to Abdulkarim," she said.

Tambari said the Muslims had also threatened her son, Simon Thomas, several times.

"When the Usens had their son abducted, as a Christian I had concern for them and decided to help in any way I can to enable them to find their son," Tambari said. "I took Victor’s mother to my pastor, who in turn asked her to report the matter to the police. Now the Muslims are after my son, Simon, and me. My landlady, who happens to be a Muslim, has threatened me with ejection from her house, and my son’s life is at stake."

The Usens are not the only Christian family in Sokoto who have had one of their children abducted and forced into Islam; Christian leaders there say abduction of teenage Christian boys and girls has become a common phenomenon in majority-Muslim Sokoto State.

"Sometimes Muslims force our young boys and girls into Islam," said Kevin Aje, Roman Catholic Bishop of Sokoto. "These are some of the challenges facing Christians here in Sokoto."

Rev. Reuben Yaro, chairman of the Sokoto district of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), has received reports of child abduction. In one case, Muslims forcefully took away a son and a daughter from a family in his church because the mother was a convert from Islam, he said.

"She gave her life to Christ, eventually got married to a Christian and the marriage was blessed with the two kids," Yaro said. But intense persecution followed, he said, with Muslims abducting the children and placing them in the custody of a Muslim cleric.

"The two children have been forced into Islam and are receiving Islamic education," he said.

The Islamists also seized the mother of the two children – her fate is unknown – and forced the father to leave Sokoto in order to save his life, Yaro said.

Yaro said he has reported another case of kidnapping and forced conversion to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Sokoto State chapter, which is investigating it.

Pastor Tayo Atiniku, Secretary of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Sokoto State chapter, also corroborated claims of abductions of teenage Christian boys and girls in Sokoto. He cited two examples.

"Grace, a girl, 17 years old, was three years ago abducted by the Muslims here," Atiniku said. "Her parents are members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God here in Sokoto, and her whereabouts are still unknown."

Another Christian girl, daughter of a Christian police officer in Talata Mafara town, also was recently abducted, forced into Islam and married off to a Muslim man without the consent of her parents, he said.

"It took the father the use of a gun for him to rescue her from these Muslims," Atiniku added.

Christian leaders are worried that the kidnapping trend is on the increase, creating tensions between Muslims and Christians.

Yea and Tafa and others get stupid sentences.C'mon!

The Sultan is entitled to his views___________,and as far as i am concerned its his damned business

I still remember the case of the South-west leader that said Abacha was making sense after watching the Aso Rock video on Diya.

Well?Didn't Diya plan a coup?Didn't the whole world see that he was a chicken at the Oputa Panel when the video was shown to the world?Boy make credible statements not bigoted myopic ones!

My favs-Adeolu Adekola,Chris Ohenhen,Nduka Ugbade,Raymond King,Henry Nwosu(Saudi 89)

Koro is a fraud--------i'm sure he does not want his ineptitude to be broadcast live.This is someone with zero senatorial input in 4 years----zero,with his so called Yankee education!Let him face his peers as its done globally and tell us what he wants to do for Lagosians!

Koro simply has no grasp of issues period!Never has,ever would!Just a glorified street urchin nothing more,no pedigree,lucky guy from the" wrong tracks "who incredulously thinks hes made good!

Maurice would come to an ignoble end-------he's a biased umpire with doctored credentials and this is the democracy OBJ wants to give us----questionable umpire presiding over a (s)election followimg scripts from Aso Rock!Magomago

Hmmm!Well,erm

Ok ?

Certain cultures have different rites when it comes to mourning,widowhood rights and the like.Majority are antediluvian and archaic!However posturing and pontificating on the www would not help matters,neither would name calling!I'm afraid it might take a while for these undesirable practices to disappear

You talk of your grandma, was she childless?. . .What were her children doing while they were stripping their mom of their belongings? Weak!

Rather uncalled for,puerile,infantile and disappointing!D man you ought to retract that!

Be careful what you ask for!

Thanks!I really don't know and i'm gentlemanly enough to admit where i don't know!
Who was East Germany's famous spy?

From the Geneva Convention!

He might!Guy is well educated and is scion of a prominent family~late father was a former federal minister and a medical doctor!
My question ~name the present Head of Service

Name the current Head of Service of the federation