Ese Oruru
The Nigeria Police acknowledged on
Thursday their handling of the abduction of a 14-year-old girl, Ese
Oruru, from Bayelsa State was flawed and was responsible for the delay
in reuniting the teenager with her family, Premium Times reports.
The Zone 1 command of the force said
it failed to follow up with the Sharia Commission in Kano, where the
girl was taken to in 2015.
Miss. Oruru was taken without parental consent to Kano by Yunusa Dahiru, a regular customer of her mother, a food vendor.
The Assistant Inspector General of
Police in charge of the zonal command, Shuaibu Gambo, said leaving the
state Sharia commission to handle the case after the Emir of Kano,
Lamido Sanusi, referred the matter to the command in August, complicated
the situation.
“Indeed, the emir had sent a team of the Sharia commission members, Ese family and the abductor to our office in August [2015].
“And my predecessor, AIG Tambari Yabo, confirmed the receipt of the letter, as well as the team, from the monarch.
“But after meeting them, and realizing it was late, he directed that they come back the following morning.
“The following day, when the AIG
didn’t see the Sharia commission officials and Ese family, he presumed
that they had amicably settled the matter; because he is aware of the
fact that Sharia commission had the ability to handle the case. But they
had not done so.
“Giving the benefit of hindsight,
it is evident that there was a failure of communication as the
delegation never returned with the girl for onward transportation to her
family. And no further report of complaint whatsoever was received in
respect of the case again.
“On the part of the zone, when it
did not hear from the delegation it innocently presumed that the case
might have been resolved by the Sharia commission, which as you know, is
also empowered to adopt alternative dispute resolution measures in
cases of this nature,” he said.
Mr. Gambo stated further that the
command traced Miss Oruru to the Sharia commission office on Monday
after failure to get her in Tofa village.
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