Emir of Kano in abduction and forceful marriage drama
March 1 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
The Emir of Kano, Sanusi
Can a person be repatriated within a country? This is a question that observers are trying to answer, following Emir Muhammed Sanusi of Kano usage of the words like my 'subject' and 'repatriation', in his explanation of his effort to effect release of the Bayelsa State's 14 years old girl, Ese Oruru, abducted from her Bayelsa State to Kano, converted to Islam and married by a Kano resident, under the Sharia law.
Emir Sanusi referred to the man who abducted the girl as his 'subject' and that he had ordered that the girl be repatriated for onward journey back to her state to be reunited with her parents. The Emir's seeming involvement to deny the parents of the girl access to their daughter was conspicuous throughout the story, published by the Punch Newspapers, toward effecting the release of the girl from the Emir's palace.
In one of her efforts to trace her daughter abducted by her customer named Yinusa from the oil state in the South of Nigeria to Kano in the north of the country, the girl's mother said she was disallowed from entering the venue, where the Emir sat in council and where she said she saw her daughter arrived in a sports utility car and escorted by police and was not allowed to talk to her.. However, she said that one police officer, who attended the Emir Council's meeting said that the Emir told him to convey the message to her that the girl had been converted to Islam and married, and for the mother to do anything about the case, she would have to go to the Sharia Court.
According to Wikipedia, repatriation is the process of returning a person to their place of origin or citizenship. This includes the process of returning refugees or military personnel to their place of origin following a war. It also applies to diplomatic envoys and international officials in time of international crisis as well as expatriates and migrants. The term may also refer to the process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of another country. The Dictionary.com says it is the process of bringing or sending back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
Based on the definition, curious observers say that the use of repatriation does not apply here, because the girl abducted is still within Nigeria and not outside the country. However, some observers say that the use of repatriation by the Emir may not be unconnected with his entire past life as a banker and the former governor of Nigeria's Central Bank, where moving money and converting foreign currency of one country to that of another country is accepted as a norm. But it is said that the Emir is supposed to know the difference between a human person and non-human entity that money represents.
Ese's mother is reported to have arrived in Abuja, where her daughter, said to have been released by her captors the newspaper report is said to be with the authorities in Abuja.
Nigerians in all works of life have cried out against child abduction and forceful and marriage, with a request that the girl's abductor and facilitator of marriage with her under the Sharia law, and all other people involved in the marriage, be brought before the law. But many Nigerians doubt the possibility of justice in the case, because of the involvement of highly placed person like the Emir, especially in a country where the rich, the wealthy and the highly placed are assumed to above the law.
Many observers believe that the Emir's statement about his efforts to get the girl repatriated is about washing his hands from the stain of an abduction and forceful marriage of an under aged girl, being part of the Islamic culture and Sharia, which his office as the Emir makes him a custodian.
Emir Sanusi referred to the man who abducted the girl as his 'subject' and that he had ordered that the girl be repatriated for onward journey back to her state to be reunited with her parents. The Emir's seeming involvement to deny the parents of the girl access to their daughter was conspicuous throughout the story, published by the Punch Newspapers, toward effecting the release of the girl from the Emir's palace.
In one of her efforts to trace her daughter abducted by her customer named Yinusa from the oil state in the South of Nigeria to Kano in the north of the country, the girl's mother said she was disallowed from entering the venue, where the Emir sat in council and where she said she saw her daughter arrived in a sports utility car and escorted by police and was not allowed to talk to her.. However, she said that one police officer, who attended the Emir Council's meeting said that the Emir told him to convey the message to her that the girl had been converted to Islam and married, and for the mother to do anything about the case, she would have to go to the Sharia Court.
According to Wikipedia, repatriation is the process of returning a person to their place of origin or citizenship. This includes the process of returning refugees or military personnel to their place of origin following a war. It also applies to diplomatic envoys and international officials in time of international crisis as well as expatriates and migrants. The term may also refer to the process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of another country. The Dictionary.com says it is the process of bringing or sending back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
Based on the definition, curious observers say that the use of repatriation does not apply here, because the girl abducted is still within Nigeria and not outside the country. However, some observers say that the use of repatriation by the Emir may not be unconnected with his entire past life as a banker and the former governor of Nigeria's Central Bank, where moving money and converting foreign currency of one country to that of another country is accepted as a norm. But it is said that the Emir is supposed to know the difference between a human person and non-human entity that money represents.
Ese's mother is reported to have arrived in Abuja, where her daughter, said to have been released by her captors the newspaper report is said to be with the authorities in Abuja.
Nigerians in all works of life have cried out against child abduction and forceful and marriage, with a request that the girl's abductor and facilitator of marriage with her under the Sharia law, and all other people involved in the marriage, be brought before the law. But many Nigerians doubt the possibility of justice in the case, because of the involvement of highly placed person like the Emir, especially in a country where the rich, the wealthy and the highly placed are assumed to above the law.
Many observers believe that the Emir's statement about his efforts to get the girl repatriated is about washing his hands from the stain of an abduction and forceful marriage of an under aged girl, being part of the Islamic culture and Sharia, which his office as the Emir makes him a custodian.
