Read What Ese Oruru's Parents Are Saying About Her Alleged Letter to Yunusa

Ese Oruru

The parents of 14-year-old Ese Oruru have debunked claims that their daughter had written a secret love letter to her alleged abductor, Yunusa Dahiru aka Yellow.

The alleged love letter was published on Saturday by a newspaper and the report went viral.

However, Ese’s mother, Mrs. Rose Oruru, denied the claims, noting that her daughter was forced to do things against her will in Kano State, where she was taken to by Yunusa.

She further said the teenager could not have written such a letter to her abductor from Bayelsa.

She said, “That letter is false. Ese told me she was forced to do a lot of things against her will, which she said she had to comply with because she did not want to die. If at all there was such a letter, she might have been forced to write it in Kano. She was held in a place where she did not know anybody. We, her parents and her siblings, were not there with her. She did not tell me about such letter.”

Similarly, Ese’s father, Mr. Charles Oruru, told a correspondent he was not aware of the existence of such a letter, which he described as a fake.

Speaking to SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday, Ese’s father said, “That is not true. All this talk of my daughter writing one love letter is rubbish. How can Ese write a letter to someone who does not know how to read and write? How would they read the letter to him?

“I am not aware of such a letter. Also, one of Ese’s siblings would have known if there were such a letter in the first place, and would have questioned her about it. But of course, it is not true. This claim is a frame up by people that are just looking for a way to ensure this man (Yunusa) is not punished. But their plans won’t work.

“This fake letter has nothing to do with this issue, because Ese is a minor. The main issue is that my daughter was abducted and taken to Kano without our consent; it is about abduction and kidnapping. Nobody can believe such a letter.

“When Ese came back to Bayelsa, she wrote a statement, and she never mentioned such. She said she could not explain how she came to Kano, and that she was very afraid when she realised she was not in Yenagoa (the capital of Bayelsa State).”

In the same vein, the Executive Director, Kindling Hope Across Nations Initiative, Mr. Kizito Andah, who took on Ese’s case, said there was no evidence that the teenager had written such a letter to her alleged abductor.

He said, “I am not surprised. This is not the first time such false claims are being published. Nevertheless, an alleged ‘love letter’ still does not absolve him of the crime. As far as I am concerned, that letter is fictitious. If they say they have the letter, we would like to see it published in its natural form.”