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meforyou1:
Op, who conducted d poll? In what location? How people were interviewed?

The poll was conducted by International Republican Institue (IRI) from the US, a rightwing US party which ordinarily would support the likes of pdp in Nigeria.

The poll is much more independent than that Ngozi Okonjo Iwela, pdp partisan polling outfit otherwise known as NOI polls

Abeymills:
D worst Govt ever

Again Mr Wailer you are among the MINORITY. Majority of Nigerians have spoken.

SeverusSnape:
apc is killing innocent Nigerians using Bokoharam and Fulani herdsmen, and complaining of insecurity.

Here are the facts that prove that Jonathan's pdp is the brain behind pdp Murderous project that murdered over 700,000 Nigerians in 6 yrs according to Nigeria;s Deputy House Speaker, Lasun.

Jonathan Regime was described by NY Times and The Financial Times of London as "Very Corrupt and Callous (Wicked)

OBJ noted in his open letter to Jonathan "Before Its Too late" than Jonathan Regime have set up snipers to murder over 1000 Nigerians that may stand in their way of rigging themselves into power again in 2015

The late former pdp's NSA boss, Mr Azzazi noted in Asaba speech that pdp is boko haram. He was murdered.

Forner Abia Governor, Orji Uzo kale noted than "..."[Jonathan]Security Agents, Not Boko Haram Behind Bombings" Kalu, who spoke in Abuja when members of the FCT chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) visited him, said the security agencies do this to
of attract more funding from the federal allocation

Former Adamawa State Governor Nyako noted that Jonathan Regime are sponsoring boko haram and committing GENOCIDE to the Norther residents, jonathan regime paid Adamawa state house of Assembly 8 million each to impeach Nyako

The US Congress was told in open congressional hearing that" jonathan regime is the main "impediment" to US abd International community's efforts to assist Nigeria to stop the boko haram attacks.

What more proof does any supporter of this Jonathan blood soaked regime need to realize that under jonathan regime over 700,000 nigerians have been murdered since jonathan took over more than 6 years ago, despite Jonathan sharing the blood money intended for security of over 7 Trillion naira in the 6 years!

BankeSmalls:
While the sheriff is sleeping on duty in aso rock

What a government. Let the darkness continue, Afterall na you people vote in a man who does not understand the importance of power supply. Is the man even educated?

Rest be assured Buhari's people are working on alternative sources of power like Solar, Coal, and New Hydro, lets see of pdp can BLOW-UP THE SUN!!

And YES Buhari is more educated than you unless you have Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the US. Not fake phd with no thesis like your hero, jona

BankeSmalls:
Zero power output across the nation, much worse that last few years, grounding operation of companies and private businesses.

Pdp is blowing up gas pipelines and complaining about power at the same time

SeverusSnape:
This is laughable

Nation newspaper?... Tinubu newspaper??

With the present state of the economy, security situation, Rift between the executive and legislature, Human rights abuses and corruption?

Tinubu is an APC chieftain, So don't expect otherwise.
I guess the respondents are those hungry Nigerians that goes about stealing pots of food.

Mr Wailer, YOU are in the MINORITY....

The poll was conducted by International Republican Institue (IRI) from the US, a rightwing US party which would support the likes of pdp in Nigeria.

The poll is more independent than that Ngozi Okonjo Iwela, pdp partisan polling outfit otherwise known as NOI polls

temitemi1:
Buhari is a FAILURE!

The Majority of the GOOD people of Nigeria has spoken. You are in the minority

SeverusSnape:
Nation newspaper?... Tinubu newspaper??

Tinubu is an APC chieftain, So don't expect otherwise.
I guess the respondents are those hungry Nigerians that goes about stealing pots of food.

The poll was conducted by International Republican Institue (IRI) from the US, a rightwing US party which would support the likes of pdp in Nigeria.

The poll is more independent than that Ngozi Okonjo Iwela, pdp partisan polling outfit otherwise known as NOI polls

http://thenationonlineng.net/opinion-poll-nigerians-pass-vote-confidence-buhari/


… Country moving ‘in right direction’ – Respondents

Nigerians have passed a vote of confidence on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, saying the country is moving in the right direction.

They, however, lamented that the improvement has not impacted positively in their personal economy.

A public opinion poll conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI), an arm of the United States Agency for International Development, revealed that Nigeria is still polarized along regional lines.

However, while majority of people from the Southeast believed that the economy has not done well, those in the northeast said the economy is doing well and heading in the right direction.

The survey said 54 percent of Nigerians believed that the Buhari government is moving in the right direction, compared to 36 percent in 2011, while 37 percent believed that the country is moving in the wrong direction.

Presenting the report of the survey to journalists in Abuja, IRI regional Director for Africa, John Tomaszewski, said despite the believe that the country is moving in the right direction, 57 percent of Nigerians said the improvement has not trickled down to their personal economy which they said is getting worse.

He said many Nigerians believed that efforts of the government is beginning to yield dividend, adding that many are of the opinion that democracy is more important than prosperity with 59 percent of respondents voting in favour of democracy, while 46 percent argued that the nation’s democracy is changing for the better.

“At least 21 percent said the nation’s democracy was changing for the worse,” he added.

Pavarottii:
If this is true...
It is totally unacceptable and the partaker should be brought to book.
Someone who has not been tried...

This is not the Nigeria, I av always wish for. Nigeria going backwards.

[size=14pt]A Choice between Jonathan and Dasuki Sharing Blood Money of Over 600 Billion Naira ($2.1 Billion Armsgate) and at the same time facilitating the MURDER of over 700,000 Nigerians in 6 years, using Dasuki, IBB and Sheriff's private Boka Haram Army .
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[size=14pt]A Choice between Jonathan and PDP looting over 15 Billion Dollars (over 3 Trillion naira) in Arms purchase scam alone while rendering over 112 million Nigerians to abject poverty

A Choice between Jonathan and his Army beating Ekiti Judges and using over 4 Billion Naira of Nigeria's money to FORCE a serial looter, Fayose on the good people of Ekiti.

A choice between Jonathan Darkness, Death, and Mindless looting and Buhari's Clean Corruption Fighting Government which has recovered over 10 Billion Dollars, in Cash and Assets in Interim forfieture, from Jonathan and his murderous, looting gang in just one year.

No wonder Nigerians kicked him back to Otuke. [/size]

vickylincon:
Are this guy's fighting for biafra or Niger delta

You must be a child not to know that Niger Delta is in fact part of Eastern Region that declared the independent State of Biafra and held 3 world powers of Britain, Russia and the US at bay for over 3 years during the British/Biafra War.

100% of today's SS and SE remains forever indigenous people of Eastern Region [Biafra]

Avengers = Pdp. Period

fednice:
It is God that giveth to reign. I rejoice with you sir.

[size=25pt]You rejoice with an Uncircumcised Muslim Paedophile, sanusi, who drugged and raped a Xtian child, Ese Oruru for 8 months? Are u okey?
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[size=15pt]ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER[/size]

Hear Ese's parents version neither Sahara Reporter nor Channels will give you.
"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)
So no sir, Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Aisha. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch this AIT video :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

marwanafrica:
I love kings and the respect they get

[size=24pt]Respect for a Muslim Paedophile, Uncircumcised sanusi, who raped a 13 yr old Xtian child, Ese Oruru for 8 month?
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ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

Hear Ese's parents version neither Sahara Reporter nor Channels will give you.
"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)
So no sir, Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Aisha. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch video :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

[size=26pt]sanusi is a SICK Muslim Paedophile who raped a 13 yr old Xtian child Ese Oruru for 8 months [/size]

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

Hear Ese's parents version neither Sahara Reporter nor Channels will give you.
"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)
So no sir, Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Aisha. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch the AIT video :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

Excellent writeup. Right on point. 100% accurate. pdp has been reduced to a Pdp avengers sabotaging Nigeria's economy because they do not want to face trial for looting the Nation dry for 16 years!

The irony is that some kids from Eastern Region are supporting the destruction of the Delta area of Eastern Region purely for political purposes. What an opposition party, a militant pdp avengers!

Indigenous Igbo Populations are found in Edo (Igbanke), Beyalsa, Rivers, Delta, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Benue, Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia. Basically there are indigenous Igbo populations in every SS and SE state!!!

bettercreature:
I said it earlier this morning Lol,we don enter on chance!
I can say it again and again,GEJ can never be this bad
Baba even stylishly devalue naira to 285 without our conscience and celebrate one year in office without a single capital project
Continue,2019 is around the corner
I'm a die hard APC fan but if we refuse to tell him the truth like GEJ supporters,he will lose woefully comes 2019
Buhari is a TOTAL FAILURE

You are a lying son of a B*ch. No single die hard APC or Buhari fan, will call Buhari a "Total Failure. What is a total failure is your looting pdp who have STOLEN 38 Trillion naira in 16 years!!!

Babacele:
It was an uncommon love affair gone soured by an irresponsible parents and a pretentious army of hate - filled ipobs. With all the stories of 'Hausa na bad people' that Ese might have been fed with ,like most typical southerners while growing up, She fell for Yunusa while the parents n the environment were busy with their nonsense hypocrisy. I dey vex jor.

Uncommon love affair between a Muslim Paedophile sanusi and a 13 yr old Christian girl is called RAPE!!!
If Paedophile sanusi in in US he will be serving a 150 years jail term right now.

The Muslim Paedophile sanusi drugged and raped the 13 yr old Christian girl-child for 8 months. Even the child trafficker for hire Yinusa boasted that h e kidnapped Ese for the Muslim Paedophile sanusi

Here are the facts:

Yanusa is simply a child trafficker who abducted and trafficked the 13 yr Christian girl-child to the Muslim paedophile sanusi. NGO KHAN Initiative stated in Punch that Ese remained in Paedophile sanusi's sex den for 8 months. Paedohile sanusi drugged the 13 yr old Christian girl and rapped her for 8 months. Here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

click link to watch this AIT video now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

[quote author=Babacele post=45997772]It was an uncommon love affair gone soured by an irresponsible parents and a pretentious army of hate - filled ipobs. With all the stories of 'Hausa na bad people' that Ese might have been fed with ,like most typical southerners while growing up, She fell for Yunusa while the parents n the environment were busy with their nonsense hypocrisy. I dey vex jor.[/quote

Uncommon love affair between a Muslim Paedophile sanusi and a 13 yr old Christian girl is called RAPE!!!
If Paedophile sanusi in in US he will be serving a 150 years jail term right now.

The Muslim Paedophile sanusi drugged and raped the 13 yr old Christian girl-child for 8 months. Even the child trafficker for hire Yinusa boasted that h e kidnapped Ese for the Muslim Paedophile sanusi

Here are the facts:

Yanusa is simply a child trafficker who abducted and trafficked the 13 yr Christian girl-child to the Muslim paedophile sanusi. NGO KHAN Initiative stated in Punch that Ese remained in Paedophile sanusi's sex den for 8 months. Paedohile sanusi drugged the 13 yr old Christian girl and rapped her for 8 months. Here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

click link to watch this AIT video now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

rapistbuhari:
It shall never be well with Sanusi lamido sanusi

You are absolutely right. The Muslim Paedophile sanusi drugged and raped the 13 yr old Christian girl-child for 8 months. Even the child trafficker for hire Yinusa boasted that h e kidnapped Ese for the Muslim Paedophile sanusi

Here are the facts:

Yanusa is simply a child trafficker who abducted and trafficked the 13 yr Christian girl-child to the Muslim paedophile sanusi. NGO KHAN Initiative stated in Punch that Ese remained in Paedophile sanusi's sex den for 8 months. Paedohile sanusi drugged the 13 yr old Christian girl and rapped her for 8 months. Here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

click link to watch this AIT video now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

MadCow1:
PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!

Praise the lord for what? For Muslim Paedophile sanusi drugging and rapping the 13 yr old Christian girl for 8 months?
Here are the facts:
Yanusa is simply a child trafficker who abducted and trafficked the 13 yr Christian girl-child to the Muslim paedophile sanusi. NGO KHAN Initiative stated in Punch that Ese remained in Paedophile sanusi's sex den for 8 months. Paedohile sanusi drugged the 13 yr old Christian girl and rapped her for 8 months. Here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

click link to watch this AIT video now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

seunlayi:
[size=13pt]CONGRATULATIONS TO HER AND THE FATHER OF THE BABY

HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY AND DEMOCRACY BABY[/size]


SHOULD THE FAMILY KEEP THE BABY OR GIVE THE BABY TO THE FATHER OF THE CHILD?

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What father? Yanusa is simply a child trafficker who abducted and trafficked the 13 yr Christian girl-child to the Muslim paedophile sanusi. NGO KHAN Initiative stated in Punch that Ese remained in Paedophile sanusi's sex den for 8 months. Paedohile sanusi drugged the 13 yr old Christian girl and rapped her for 8 months. Here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER

click link to watch this AIT video now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

hemartins:
Thank God for the safe delivery.
Yinusa, where are you?
Your seed has germinated.

What Yanusa? Haven't you been following the story? Ese was abducted for Muslim paedophile sanusi, sanusi drugged and rapped the poor christian 13 yr old child for 8 months. Yanusa said so himself. here are the facts:

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER
Hear Ese's parents version neither Sahara Reporter nor Channels will give you.
"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)
So no sir, Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Aisha. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch this AIT video Now :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

Adaowerri111:
Good news

Are you out of your mind? Good news for what? But for poverty she would have aborted the fetus planted by Muslim Paedophile Rapist sanusi, who drugged her out of her mind and rapped her for 8 months. Watch the AIT video below now

ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER
Hear Ese's parents version neither Sahara Reporter nor Channels will give you.
"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)
So no sir, Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Aisha. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch this AIT video Now :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

mesoprogress:
Sharia should have no place in Nigeria laws

Agreed

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

It is sickening and unacceptable

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/

If Sanusi has changed as a Paedophile Rapist of 13 yr old, Christian girl-child, Ese Oruru, and now wants to champion the cause of ending Muslim practice of kidnapping underage Christian girl-childrenm druggging them, brainwashing them, forcefully converting them to Islam, marrying them of to 50-60 year old Paedophiles and rapping them, then he should do two things before we can forgive him:

1) Sanusi should see that ten's of thousands of underage Christian girls being held in captivity in all Emir palaces, Sharia Commisions throughout the North are released with immidiate effect.

2)Sanusi should see that All Christian under age girls who were forcefully converted to Islam and forcefully married are released with immdiate effect,

3) Sanusi should apologise to Nigerias, Ese Oruru and her family for his rapping her for 8 months.

4 Sanusi should pay a restitution to assist all kidnapped underage girls to get treatment and to go to school to University level.

5) Sanusi should accept any other punishment a judge may impose on him for drugging and rapping Ese Oruru for 8 months.

Below are the facts about Sanusi and how he had Ese kidnapped for him for sexual slavery....


ESE WAS ABDUCTED FOR SANUSI. YINUSA WAS JUST AN AGENT SAYS THE MOTHER. HEAR HER:

"you will not see your daughter again forever. Na Emir say make I come carry your pikin come. Na there I go take (become) rich" (In English she says Yinusa told her she will never see her daughter forever. That it is the emir that sent him to bring her to him and that is how he will become rich/wealthy. And that even if she takes a lawyer, she will still not get Ese back cos the Emir is powerful)

So Yinusa is just a conduit, an agent. Sanusi is the "recepient" of the 13 years old Ese Oruru. It is why she is in the palace. The Yinusa guy marriage is deception. SHE WAS BROUGHT FOR SANUSI, says the mother.

click link to watch video :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VdzmtLeZQ&itct=CAsQpDAYASITCJ-n2tf5nssCFdG7fgod_lQKWlISZXNlIG9ydXJ1IGFiZHVjdGVk&gl=NG&hl=en&client=mv-google

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.

comos:
why is your stomach running because of PDP

whther they leave or stay, come 2019 PDP will take APC to the cleaner

Just exactly how do you pdp thug intend to take APC to the cleaner?

***Your Hero. Jona is on the run, now in exile in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

***Virtualy all your leaders are facing corrutpion trials and many more will fail before 2019

*** The Army and Police which you pdp thugs use to write election result is now controlled by APC

*** Virtually all the INEC staffs that you have corrupted will end up in jail or be fired, to be replaced by APC loyalists

*** Buhari always gets 12 million votes even against Northern pdp candidates like Yaradua,

*** Many current pdp Governors has indicated interest to join APC and they will jump off pdp ship right before 2019

Bottomline by the time Buhari is done with pdp, pdp may not win upto to 5 states in 2019!!!

http://thenationonlineng.net/another-abducted-minor/


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.