FEMALE ABDUCTOR MAKES AN OPEN CONFESSION

“I also showered her with gifts but warned her not to tell her mother and when I discov­ered that she was doing what I asked her to do, I took the next move, which made her to hate her mother.

“It was after I had done these preliminary things I was supposed to do, that I sold the girl to them (the scouts). They took her away and finally, I learnt they took her to Zaria and that is where they told me she is at the moment”.

The Ciroman Zazzau who denied knowledge of the issue and referred us to the Emir’s secretary who vehemently denied Baba Abdul’s claims and link with the Emirate.

The activities of a syndicate ab­ductor whose primary objective is to lure Christian teenagers and minors from the southern parts of the country and force them to embrace Islam and marry them off, has been reported. This story led the Police to ar­rest the Abuja-based, self-styled Islamic cleric, Baba Abdul, who facilitated Ifesinachi’s abduction from the Federal Capital Territo­ry (FCT).

Initially, the abductors made the girl’s mother to believe that the 14-year-old SS-2 student of Government Secondary School, Apo Resettlement, was taken to Maiduguri, but it was later discov­ered that she was actually taken to Zaria in Kaduna State.

 Mrs. Ani, Ifesinachi’s mother, said her daughter informed her via GSM short message (sms) a few days after her abduction that she was whisked out of Abuja to Maidu­guri.

Ifesinachi’s mother confirmed that she used the same telephone line to call her daughter’s abduc­tors asking them to allow her see Ifesinachi but they refused, tell­ing her that her daughter was in good health and has been convert­ed to Islam, married off and was now attending an Islamic school where they paid N35,000.

She also discovered the pic­tures of her daughter adorned in hijab and posted on the internet as proof that they have actually converted her daughter to Islam. Mrs. Ani confirmed the pictures of the girl in hijab to be those of her daughter.

In the course of  investigation, We also called the same telephone line (08060598215), registered in the name of Ngozi Yellow Osegbere, and a female voice who speaks Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri and Beriberi Languages responded.

She wondered why the re­porter detailed to speak with her should feign ignorance of the re­ward of converting people of oth­er tribes to Islam, especially as he claimed that he was a Muslim.

According to the sources, Baba Abdul maintained that the scouts told him they were from the Emir of Zazzau and that they were looking for young children, especially girls, from the southern parts of the country to convert to Islam and marry.