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jkendy:
A 10yr old 'child' granting constructive and comprehensive interview to this reporter is amazing.


Sounds like the Farouk boy isn't one of the Almajiris we see here on the streets in northern Nigeria.

You go fear journalism work nah

So what exactly is your point

Very heartless

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Farouk Ibrahim Ahmad Farouk Ibrahim Ahmad is one of the nine children rescued from a kidnapping cartel that specialise in abducting and trafficking children from Kano to Onitsha in Anambra State and other parts of the country. In this interview, ten-year-old Farouk explains how he was abducted, and how his host, Madam Ebere, sells abducted children.

How old are you? I am ten years old. Where are you from? I am from Kano State before I was taken to Onitsha by Paul

Why did you follow him to Onitsha? He took me to his house in the night. The following morning, he took me to a motor park and brought me to Onitsha. Madam Ebere then came and took Emma and me to the hospital.

Why did she take you to the hospital and what happened after that? I was taken to be circumcised and we went home with them and continued staying with them. How did they treat you? They treated me like their son

. Did they change your name? Yes. What name did they give you? Onyedika James.

Where did Paul see you before he took you away? He saw me outside my house in Kano. What did he say to lure you? I was playing with my friends that night. He grabbed my hand and when I attempted to shout, he covered my mouth and took me to an isolated place.

It was Paul’s wife that took me away from my yard to their house. It was when I got to their house that I saw Paul. And then Paul took me from Kano to Onitsha. When you got to Onitsha, where did they take you to? I stayed with Madam Ebere and then, I was told, that she is my mother. What did you tell them when they told you she is your mother? I told them nothing.

Were you not afraid? Did you reject her? No. Did they give you food? Yes. How many times in a day? Four times in a day. Where you enrolled in school? Yes, I was. I was taken to three different schools. Do you know the name of the schools? Yes What are the names? The first one is Confidence Nursery, Primary and Secondary School. They later changed my school to Divine International Nursery and Primary school. They changed me again from Divine International school to Crown Model School.

Does Madam Ebere have a husband? Yes. Does he stay in the house with you all? No. Her husband lives separately but he is in Onitsha. Did Madam Ebere know that Paul’s wife took you without your parent’s consent? When we got to Onitsha, Madam Ebere asked him where the children came from and he said from the motherless babies’ home.

What language did Paul speak in when he told Madam Ebere that? I remembered the conversation when I finally learnt how to speak Igbo. Paul brought a girl called Ozioma. Her name was Aisha but they changed it to Ozioma when they brought her to Onitsha. Madam Ebere asked him where the girl came from and he said she was from a motherless babies’ home.

Why did you not say anything that time, since you had started understanding the Igbo language? Was it because you were afraid or because you love Madam Ebere? I was afraid. Did you go to church while you were there? Yes. Which church? Jehovah Witness When they brought Ozioma and the other children to Madam Ebere, what did she do with them? Whenever new children came, some people would come to ask her who the children were. She would tell them that there’s a man whose wife works in a motherless babies’ home.

So, it’s the woman that brings the children from the motherless babies’ home. The people would say they want to buy a child and she will sell the child to them. So, Madam Ebere was selling children to those people? Yes. Do you see her collect money from these people? She normally closes the door. But when they brought Emmanuel was the first time I saw money being exchanged between Madam Ebere and a visitor. Did you see her giving or collecting money? Yes, I saw her counting the money they gave to her. How many times did you see this kind of situation; where she collects or gives out money? I have seen her more than two times

. Apart from Emmanuel’s case, when else did you see her count money after a child was brought? She counted money when they brought the twin girls. What are their names? Their names are Husna and Amira. Where did they bring them from? They brought them from Kano. What of Emmanuel? They also brought him from Kano. What is your routine for the days you go to school? If there is no water at home, I will fetch water. This is before school. Aisha washes the plates every morning. After fetching water, I take my bath, wear my school uniform and go to school. When we come back from school, we eat, wash our school uniform, go to the shop, and wash our food flask. Then we close when it is time and go home.

Did you feel like she was punishing you? No. Does she beat you? Yes, only when I do something wrong. What kind of wrong would she beat you for? Sometimes, I come back from school and start playing when I have not washed my school uniform. Did you worry about your parents in Kano? Did you miss them? Yes. Did you think that one day you would come back to Kano? No, because I lost all hope of ever returning home

What happened the day you were rescued from Onitsha? Aisha, Husna and I went to Awada because at that time they had sold Amira out. Who took you there? Madam Ebere’s husband took us there. We stayed with his sister there. On Monday, they brought me back to Onitsha to start school because they had registered me at Crown Model School. It was my first day in the new school. After I came back from school, I was eating when SARS people came. They asked her, ‘Are you Madam Ebere?’ She said yes. They told her to go with them. Then, they came to take me, Chiagozie, Blessing and Chiemerie. Husna and Aisha were in Awada. The SARS officers asked her if these were all the children and she said no. She said the others were in Awada. So, they went to Awada to take Husna and Aisha. Then, we went to the police station and they asked her if we were all the children she had in her care and she said no, it remained Chinedu. The SARS people took me because I told them I know the house. We went to the house but we couldn’t find Chinedu. We came back to the police station. The next day, the SARS people went to where Amira was and they brought her and Usman to the police station
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They asked her where Chinedu was and she said he was with her sister but when they went there they still couldn’t find Chinedu. The Anti-Kidnapping Squad said if they get to Kano and discover that any child was left behind, her punishment would be more than it ought to be. The next day, we went to Kano. And there is one boy, Chukwuemeka, my friend. He told me he was not an Igbo boy, that he is Hausa. He said his mother’s sister brought him from Unguwar Hausa to Onitsha. I didn’t know that it was Paul’s wife that brought him to Onitsha. She gave him to Madam Ebere. Madam Ebere gave him to one of her friends who live close to the house. It is the woman that named him Chukwuemeka.

When AKS brought you to Kano, did they tell you anything? They told me that Madam Ebere is not my real mother, even though, I knew she wasn’t my biological mum How did you know? Aisha and I usually talk about where we come from.

That we were Hausa people. She told me about her family and I also told her about my family. So, you remembered your family. Yes. When you returned to your parents, how did you feel? I felt happy. What happened the day you saw them? Who did you see first; your mother or your father? My father, I recognised him almost immediately. How did you know he was your father? I remembered him from a picture.

Did he show you the picture? It was a family picture and I remembered it.



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/i-lost-hope-of-ever-returning-home.html

Accrding to Daily Nigerian Newspaper t(www.dailynigerian.com) the kids were all convinced to christianity and their names changed. But Punch ommited that part for undisclosed reasons. Imagine if it were the other way round!

The Buhari regime has scored another first.

Which zoning? Where were these people when GEJ violated the zoning arrangement and contested and won the 2011 election?

This looks like whistleblowers job. Can someone help me calculate the whistleblower’s cut?

It’s actually meant to be a joke, you can deduce this from the clownish manner he is speaking, coupled with the way he speak Hausa with a Heavy Tuareg (buzu) accent when he is probably not Tuareg (judging from his physical appearance

Samirana360:
Muslim/Muslim in a Muslim/Christian.....injusticen prejudice

It compares with Edo State: Christian/Christian ticket in a Christian/Muslim state.
Is that one not injustice?

if this turns out to be true, then it is a serious matter. We should start thinking of boycotting the products.

whao:
I think am having headache, let me contact my lawyer cos I need to sue maggi, Nestle and Pepsi.
It's high time for my lawyer to make his cool cash if he can defend it.

Seriously if only we confirmed this allegations to be true I will even sue nafdac and the government of APC for not putting the brained cabinets to check mate all this unethical practices of food poisoning.

May God help them that it's not true. Amen

wetin come bring APC enter de matter

im not sure this is entirely true. for example, is the cleanu-up of ogoniland captured in that list?

Binb:
mod please move this to the front page lets get peoples reaction due to the public safety implication of the matter

seconded!

Binb:
simple! switch to other alternative/rival product

has this news been confirmed?

Binb:
simple! switch to other alternative/rival product

has this news been confirmed

@annunaki please can you shed more light on the following biblical verses:

Numbers 31:17-18
Now kill all the boys (in Midian). And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Judges 21:10-12
10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. 11“This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.” 12They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.

1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: [/b]and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.

[b]Luke 19:27
"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

Luke 12:49
"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled

@op why did you stop? that is not the end of the Article By Dr Sherif Abdul

check this link to read stories of priests who converted to Islam from christianity:
http://www.islamreligion.com/category/66/

falopey:
For the question you asked about British, you can as well answer the question. Research the advent of islam in any countries. It's by forceful conversion. I think you have Google at your finger? Research it now . No country in the world accept islam for the first time by conviction. It was by war.

stop posting trash. Indonesia has the largest muslim population in the world, and no muslim army conquered Indonesia. you can confirm from Google

myproperty:
They were forced to become Muslims through Islamic war conquest but not through conviction. The Imperialism you mentioned is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization especially through the use of military force.

The spread of Christianity was majorly by conviction and that was why our colonial masters ( though Christians)did not force the religion on the Muslims.
What do you think would have happened if we were colonized by a Muslim country?

How do you force an individual to pray five times a day or fast for the month of Ramadan? Now imagine forcing a whole country to pry five times a day and fast a whole. You may need to attach a soldier to every single citizen 24/7 to ensure compliance!

1. Did Jesus preach about trinity?
2. Did he command you to worship him?
3. Has he ever worshipped in a church?
4. Did Jesus name the religion christianity?
5. Did he ever preach to non Israelites ?

Sincere answers backed with proof please

myproperty:
Are you referring to conversion by force ?

if they were converted by force how do you explain the fact that about 10 percent of egyptians are still christians, there are still christians in Syria, lebanon etc, they forgot to Force those ones?

truthman2012:
If I open a thread on quranic contradictions, the mod will transfer it to muslim section where I will not have access to it again.

Meanwhile you have not clarified any of the biblical contradictions.

@ truthman First, I think we need to be clear about what is contradiction- contradiction May be defined as a combination of statement, ideas or features which are opposed to one another. That is to say they cannot happen at the same time. the Quranic situation you quoted are not contradictory you can receive your record behind your back in your left hand. This is possible if you are given from the back and in your left hand. No contradiction.

Now to the biblical contradictions-Matthew said Joseph the carpenter 's father is Jacob while Luke said it is Heli, this is a clear contradiction, as he cannot be a son of Jacob and heli at the same time.

Mathew lists 41 generations between Jesus and David while Luke says it is 26 generations. Now either Luke or Matthew is lying or both of them are lying. Both statements cannot be true. that is contradiction. And Christians wiant us to believe that both Mathhew and Luke were inspired by the Holy Spirit!

I hope you now understand what contradiction is!

@truthman, do not derail this thread, address the contradictions in the bible first then you can open another thread for us to discuss the Qur'an. I can assure u that those issues you raised wil be dealt with

This is terrible generalisation. How does the opinion of one individual from the north amounts to " the north rejects" this is mischief

Why cant they use police and civil defence forbthe election if the miltary are not available