peaceloveworld2:
MODs please move this to front page. Justice delayed is justice denied. We must get to the root of the Ese saga.

We are calling for justice and not one-sided biased reportage.

Thank you.

peaceloveworld2:
@ Chrisoblog

If the allegations against Yunusa are true, he must be prosecuted. That was clearly stated in the Pleass.

What we are saying or the purpose of teh article is that the generalization is by the Christian-dominated media is wrong. That is the issue here!. Why are is the baby factory phenomenon in Igboland not given a christian colouration? Why is the gay paeophila in the Vatican not given a Christian colouration|? Why was Reverend King and the Ebonyi pastor cases not given a religious colouration?

This is purely a criminal case and should be isolated as such and not used to malign the image of Islam. That is the issue here.

In the law court, the accused will take his plea and argue his case. For all we know these are all allegations. As I said earlier, if he is found guilty, he should be severely dealt with by the court. But for the gutter journalists at The PUNCH to portray the news with anti-Islamic intent is disgraceful. Put yourself in Yunusa's shoes, an allegation must still be substantiated with sufficient evidence. Why is Olisa Metuh, Badeh and Dasuki in court. Were we to follow your reasoning, then the are already guilty as charged. Please no double standard.

This is a democratic dispensation

peaceloveworld2:
It is clearly visible to the blind and audible to the deaf that the Ese Oruru Saga is a heavily biased and one-sided reportage by Martin Ayankola (see attached picture), the Editor of The PUNCH Newspapers, the official face of the Christian sponsored anti-Islamic narrative and the emerging No 1 enemy of Islam in Nigeria. As of today, NO ONE, has interrogated Yunusa to get his side of the story. What has happened to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty? Does an accused not have a right to fair hearing? Yet, Martin Ayankola, a supposed brown-envelope journalist has usurped the role of the Judiciary by using his newspaper to try, convict and prosecute Yunusa and heavily maligned the image of Islam. And like a rabid dog, the Christian dominated media lapped on to the story and began disparaging the image of Islam.

That the alleged and yet unproven crime of one individual will be sensationalized and commercialized for cheap pecuniary gains by generalizing it as an Islamic phenomenon in order to denigrate the religion of almost 2 billion Muslim faithful is the height of the most irresponsible, shallow and indolent journalism. Put differently, Ayankola descended to the cesspit of gutter journalism all in a bid to achieve the preconceived agenda of the Nigerian Christian Community (NCC) which is to paint the image of Islam in a bad light, demonize its adherents, fan the embers of disunity and ethno-religious crisis in an already fragile polity. To further confirm this assertion, no Nigerian Christian has distanced Islam from the alleged act of Yunusa which implies that it was a preconceived agenda. Afterall, silence means consent and tacit support. The only Nigerian who has done that is Professor Wole Soyinka who interestingly, is a known non-adherent of both Islam and Christianity. Is this the level to which religious bigotry fuelled by hate-filled fellows like Martin Ayankola has degenerated to? “But they plan, and Allah plans. And Allah is the best of planners” (Quran 8:30)

‘Abduction’ or elopement

According to the one-sided reportage we have read, Yunusa was well known to the family of the Orurus. Ese herself confirmed that she used to ‘play’ with Yunusa and other customers of theirs who patronize them. The questions begging for answers among others therefore, are:
1. At what age was Ese deflowered and who was the first cradle robber?
2. Is Yunusa the first person to sleep with Ese and is Yunusa the only person she has ever slept with?
3. Were Yunusa and Ese already sexmates (repugnant) in Bayelsa before the sojourn to Kano?
4. Are any of Ese’s sister siblings, female friends and female colleagues virgins and is the under-age fornication a trend prominent among her colleagues in Bayelsa?
5. Does she and her friends sleep with Bayelsa boys or they only sleep with their Hausa customers?
6. When they got to Kano, did Yunusa sleep with her, was if forcefully, or by mutual consent?
For these questions to be answered, both of them should be placed face-to-face and interrogated by independent parties, not the likes of religious bigots and media outfits like Martin Ayankola and The PUNCH Newspapers respectively. With these, we shall be able to firmly establish if this is a case of ‘abduction’ by Yunusa or an elopement by the two lovers.

Yunusa’s alleged acts are very un-Islamic

Let’s even assume that the allegations are true, is Yunusa’s act in concurrence with the dictates of Islam? No! They are not un-Islamic for the following three reasons:
1. There are at least four conditions precedent to wedding or a Nikkah in Islam. They are the consent of the bride in question, consent of her parents or guardian, two witnesses and request for dower (the gift a bride requests from the groom). Were any of these conditions satisfied by Yunusa? Was there a Nikkah? So how could The PUNCH claim that Yunusa’s actions are Islamic? Allah said in the Glorious Quran, “O you who believe, you are forbidden to marry women against their will” (Quran 4:19)

2. Islam prohibits immoral sex (fornication and adultery) in all its ramifications. In actual fact, Islam encourages adherents to flee any signs of temptation. That is why in the Mosque and other Islamic gatherings, the men and women do not sit together so that unnecessary ‘body contact’ do not stir imaginations to begin to run wild? Allah said in the Glorious Quran, “The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah” (Quran 24:2)

3. Allah also said in the Glorious Quran that there is no compulsion in religion. “There shall be no compulsion in the acceptance of the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong” (Quran 2:256). So what doctrine or provisions is Yunusa following? If at all the allegation of forceful conversion is true because we have not heard Yunusa’s version of the story, can Yunusa be said to be following the provisions of the Glorious Quran as being speculated by The PUNCH?

Campaign of calumny and hypocrisy of Martin Ayankola and The PUNCH

Followers of the Ese Oruru Saga and readers of The PUNCH can testify to the intense and almost everyday maligning of the image of Islam by Martin Ayankola, the enemy of Islam and his newspaper, The PUNCH, the mouthpiece of Christian media pen terrorism. A look through The PUNCH magazine today shows that the papers is riddled with stories against Islam. The 2016 anti-Islamic agenda of The PUNCH is fast unfolding before our very eyes. The following are the some of the laundry list of anti-Islamic stories targeted at inciting the NCC against the Nigerian Muslim Community (NMC) currently trending in The PUNCH:

1. http://www.punchng.com/ig-shouldnt-have-waited-for-emir-before-freeing-ese-nigerians/
2. http://www.punchng.com/ig-girl-ese-and-the-culture-of-impunity/
3. Terrorism: Buhari confirms Nigeria’s membership of Saudi’s Islamic coalition
http://www.punchng.com/38715-2/
4. http://www.punchng.com/nigerians-carpet-ig-sanusi-over-eses-abduction-forced-marriage/
5. http://www.punchng.com/islamic-bank-offer-to-nigeria-excites-buhari/
6. http://www.punchng.com/buhari-plotting-turn-nigeria-islamic-country-fayose/
7. http://www.punchng.com/row-over-buharis-comment-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

What axe has Martin Ayankola got to grind with Islam? Who are his paymasters? What is their end goal? Are the agents of destruction and founders of Boko Haram (PDP) who lost out in the last general elections behind this? Is it an Igbo agenda or the agenda of the Yoruba Christians?

Double Standard (Ese Oruru versus the three Lagos School Girls)

We have observed that when a crime is committed and the alleged is a Muslim, the Nigerian media spearheaded by the hate-filled, extremist Christian and the insanely ethno-religiously bigoted enemy of Islam, Martin Ayankola and his Newspaper, The PUNCH will lap on to the story, sensationalize and commercialize it to achieved their permanent agenda to denigrate the Islamic faith. How could a bribe-hungry journalist rubbish a religion all in a bid to make a living? As Governor El-Rufai said recently, “what we cannot allow is the continuation of such blackmail, and the expectation that if you make yourself sufficiently obnoxious and incendiary the government will use public funds to settle you”. Is this how bad the worst President Nigeria ever had, Goodluck Jonathan, left the country such that the bribes paid to the pro-PDP PUNCH has finished and the magazine is desirous of patronage by the frugal Buhari administration?

But when the same crime is committed by a Christian, it is treated like an independent issue, with no references, overt or covert to Christianity. Nothing better evidences this than the recent abduction of three Lagos School Girls. Of the 12-member infamous abduction gang, three have been caught and their names are Emmanuel Arigidi, Lamamei and Clement Abanara Million. Even a teenager knows these are Christian names. Why didn’t Ayankola and The PUNCH shout to high heavens that the abductors are following the dictates of Christianity? The baby-factory phenomenon and kidnapping which have become stocks-in-trade of the South East (Igboland) has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The Baptist Church pastor, Camerius J. Mills who raped a 15-year old girl in the United Kingdom was not blamed on Christianity. The genocidal Uganda-based Christian terrorist group, Lord Resistance Army which uses the cross and hopes to establish a country run on the 10 commandments in the bible have been deliberately isolated from Christianity by the Nigerian and Western media. The recent case of the Ebonyi Pastor, David Ibe who raped a church member has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The case of gay paedophila tearing the Vatican apart has yet to be blamed on Christianity. The gay weddings in churches have yet to be blamed on Christianity. So much for the bible and Christianity! Why should Ese’s case be blamed on Islam by the Agent of Doom, Martin Ayankola?

Fanning the embers of discord and the ignoble quartet

With the way Ayankola and The PUNCH are going, they will tear this country apart. Like Adolf Hitler who rose to power on hate-filled anti-Semitic rhetoric and from which he eventually murdered 6 million Jews in the 1954 holocaust, same with the extremely hot-tempered, fraudster of a human and mentally unstable Donald Trump who is revving up anti-Hispanic, anti-African and anti-Muslim hate-filled campaign rhetorics, and yet same with the failure who calls himself Governor of Stomach Infrastructure (GSI), Ayodele Fayose who has started an anti-Islamic rhetoric, Ayankola is fast joining a dishonourable quartet who the world would eventually blame God for ever creating if they achieve their agenda. Does Ayankola want to turn this country to another Syria, Somalia or Sudan? Compare the campaign of hate against Islam by The PUNCH and the editorial (see below) by THISDAY Magazine who demonstrated rare professionalism by identifying the main issues in the Ese saga and not joining the bandwagon of extremist Christians like Martin Ayankola. http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/03/06/issues-in-ese-orurus-abduction/

Faith-based criminal tagging, way to go going forward?

Over the years, the NMC has endured and maintained dignified composure in the face of unwarranted provocation and attacks by the largely Christian Nigerian Media, Going forward, this will no longer be the case. We do not want to be pushed to the extent of combusting this country. Henceforth, we shall use all the means available to us to tag every criminal with their faith. We shall use the electronic and print media to highlight the faith of any criminal apprehended. With this, the NCC will have a taste of the fruit they have always served the NMC for decades. We shall use the social media platforms to highlight any crime committed by a Christian and quote supporting bible passages to drive home our point. Commit a crime and the image of your faith will be tarnished in the media. This generalization madness by the NCC has got to stop. The only way to stop it is for the NMC to respond in kind.

Pleas

In light of the above, the Nigerian Muslim Community (NCC) hereby call on:
1. the Presidency to wade into this matter by ordering a full scale and independent investigation into the Ese Oruru saga and expose all the truths and untruths. More importantly, Nigerians need to hear from Yunusa. If Yunusa is tried and convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, he should be severely punished in line with the laws of land – No mercy!

2. the Presidency to commission an investigation into the cases of Muslim children being forcefully converted to Christians at the Edo IDP camps with the rhetoric, “accept Jesus or you will go to hell”

3. the Presidency, the National Assembly (NASS), the Ministers of Justice and Information, the Lagos State Government and the Nigerian Union of Journalist to please call emerging Agent of Hate, and the official face of extremist Christian ideologies in Nigeria, Martin Ayankola and his ignominious newspaper, The PUNCH to order.

4. the owners of the The PUNCH Newspapers and the Aboderin family to salvage whatever is left of the magazine’s lost glory and completely evaporated objectivity by relieving Martin Ayankola of his job before his agenda to throw this country into an avoidable ethno-religious crisis becomes full blown

5. the government to investigate, arrest, and and prosecute Martin Ayankola because he is no different from Nnamdi Kanu and proscribe The PUNCH newspapers which is the print version of Radio Biafra in order to prevent other religious bigots masquerading as journalists and media outfits to follow the ignoble part of fuelling hate-filled narratives to achieve preconceived agenda and God forbid, throw Nigeria into a needless ethno-religious civil war.

6. the Nigerian Christian Community should immediately, please call their Agent of Doom to order and desist from making a living by promoting prejudice and specializing in incitement.

7. the NASS should pass a bill mandating the age of consent/marriage as 18 for both sexes. Though this may be unpopular with the likes of SanI Yerima who once forced the NASS to jettison such motion in the past, President Buhari, Senator Saraki and Speaker Dogara should demonstrate strong political will to push through the bill so as to prevent a recurrence of the Ese episode.

NSCIA, NASFAT, MURIC copied.

ISLAM IS LOVE ETERNAL (On the truth we stand)

“Believers, be the supporters of justice and testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives; whether it be against the rich or the poor. God must be given preference over them. Let not your desires cause you to commit injustice. If you deviate from the truth in your testimony, or decline to give your testimony at all, know that God is Well Aware of what you do.” – Quran (4:135)

aventura:
The op is yinusa brother in crime. Ignore him

GreatAgb:
Rubbish! I stopped reading when I saw "...was Ese a Virgin"? Like it matters.

It doesn't even matter if Ese consented to sex. What d law cares about is the fact that marrying an underaGe girl is a criminal offence

ZKOSOSO:

My brother, they can never be civil with peace loving people.
Thank God for internet..... now we all have a copy of Quran and Hadith. Even the sunnah from diff authors. So wetin dem wan hide naa?
Islam permits Ra.pe of kafurs, stealing and killing of disbelievers
Yanusa was just following the footstep of the Prophet and Aisha (6yrs old bride) Versus
Yunasa and Aisha (13yrs old stolen bride)

peaceloveworld2:
Thank you once Chrisooblog.

Yes I am a Muslim and I am extremely proud of it.

Please visit the link below to read the text of the interview between Sheikh Ahmad and The PUNCH:
http://www.punchng.com/i-hold-yunusa-innocent-until-i-hear-from-him-sheikh-ahmad/

The questions from the PUNCH interviewers were extremely provocative but the Sheikh maintained uncommon calmness and unprecedented self-command.

From the leading questions asked by the bribe-hungry and hate-filled Punch journalists, they had already faith-tagged the alleged crime to Islam. Thankfully, they were disappointed as they went away from the interview with lorry-loads of lecture from the highly revered Sheikh Ahmad on what Islam stands for.

Their intent for the interview was to denigrate Islam but the Sheikh did not fall for it and instead, he successfully cleared all the lies that has been peddled from time immemorial by Pastors to hoodwink their church members. Example is the '77 virgins question', a very common lie used by the commercial-oriented pentecostal pastors of today to deceive their congregation and malign the image of Islam in their churches. Google is your friend. Quran is on the net. search for '77 virgins in the Quran' and tell me what you find.

When a thief is caught, let's assume he's a christian, does the press go to interview his pastor?

When the Ebonyi pastor raped his church member, did the press go to interview the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)?

Has the CAN president or secretary general been interviewed by the press on the cases of baby factory in the predominantly Christian and Catholic Igboland (South East). If all of this did not happen, why should a Sheikh be interviewed on the case of Yunusa, a muslim a who was alleged to have had carnal knowledge with a minor and forcefully converted her to Islam? These are the issues. This is what is called crime faith-tagging. Is that the way to go? Should we start with that?

To further buttress the assertion that this was a preconceived agenda, has Martin Ayankola gone to investigate the cases of Muslim children being forcefully converted to Christians at the Edo IDP camps with the rhetoric, “accept Jesus or you will go to hell”.

On this case alone, The PUNCH has interviewed two prominent Muslim clerics (Sheikh Ahmad and Prof Akintola of MURIC) yet not a single pastor or Adeboye has been interviewed on the crime committed by the abductors of the three Lagos School girls.

The Ese-Yunusa saga is purely a criminal matter and should be treated as such. When you start interviewing Sheikhs and other Islamic scholars, what are you implying?

Why will the press faith-tag Dasuki's case when it is common knowledge that Nigerian politicians except Buhari are all thieves? That is akin to setting your own roof on fire. Is it Badeh (Xtian), Dasuki (Muslim), Metuh (Xtian), Haliru (Muslim), Akpobolo NIMASA (Xtian) that you want to faith-tag. How many will you do? When a crime is common to both religions, attempting to faith-tag it is a fruitless exercise.

On a final note, why is such not happening among Yoruba Muslims or in Dubai or Saudi. If at all, the mouthpiece of extremist christinaity, The PUNCH wanted to tag, they should have gone to interview the Emir or Sultan of Sokoto because it is in the North that you have such cases and more importantly, the cases of VVF. Have you ever heard of child marriage or VVF in Yoruba land or among Yoruba muslims, in Dubai, Saudi and the like? This shows that it is purely a cultural affair, not religious.

Beyond this, it is an opportunity for the Muslims to put their house in order and push for the 18-year old minimum marriage age legislation as contained in the article in order to prevent the proliferation of Yerimas and Yunusas while the Northern governors invest more in education and enlightenment of their population.

Thank you once again Chrisooblog.

peaceloveworld2:
@ Avetura:

1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.





1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.

peaceloveworld2:
@ Chrisoblog

If the allegations against Yunusa are true, he must be prosecuted. That was clearly stated in the Pleass.

What we are saying or the purpose of teh article is that the generalization is by the Christian-dominated media is wrong. That is the issue here!. Why are is the baby factory phenomenon in Igboland not given a christian colouration? Why is the gay paeophila in the Vatican not given a Christian colouration|? Why was Reverend King and the Ebonyi pastor cases not given a religious colouration?

This is purely a criminal case and should be isolated as such and not used to malign the image of Islam. That is the issue here.

In the law court, the accused will take his plea and argue his case. For all we know these are all allegations. As I said earlier, if he is found guilty, he should be severely dealt with by the court. But for the gutter journalists at The PUNCH to portray the news with anti-Islamic intent is disgraceful. Put yourself in Yunusa's shoes, an allegation must still be substantiated with sufficient evidence. Why is Olisa Metuh, Badeh and Dasuki in court. Were we to follow your reasoning, then the are already guilty as charged. Please no double standard.

This is a democratic dispensation

peaceloveworld2:
@ Avetura:

1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.





1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.

peaceloveworld2:
@ Avetura:

1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.





1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them. So at 3yrs old Rebecca was fetching water for thirsty camels?....try harder

peaceloveworld2:
@ Avetura:

1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.





1. Isaac (40yrs) married Rebecca (3yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible
2. Joseph (90yrs) married Virgin Mary (10yrs) in your so-called Holy Bible. Mary gave birth to Jesus at the age of 12yrs before going on to have Joseph (jr), James, Jude and Simon.

Aren't Isaac and Joseph both paedophiles and isn't the bible in support of child marriage. So if Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was a paedophile (Astagfirullahi), Isaac and Joseph also were.

The article and the discussion is beyond your comprehension, far beyond your mental capacity. The likes of @ Chrisooblog understand the intent of the article and can hold useful discussions, not people like you.

Assignment for you: Please fetch the age at which Mary had the other four children and age gaps between them.

GreatAgb:
Rubbish! I stopped reading when I saw "...was Ese a Virgin"? Like it matters.

It doesn't even matter if Ese consented to sex. What d law cares about is the fact that marrying an underaGe girl is a criminal offence