Patience Paul, the 15 year old Benue state born girl who
was abducted on August 12th last year and forced into Marriage in Sokoto state
where she resides with her family, has narrated how she was abducted and
sexually abused by her abductor for 7 months. Patience was freed on March 4th
after the Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, intervened in her case.
Speaking in an Interview with Leadership, Patience who is
a primary six pupil, said her abductor and some Hisbah (Sharia police)
personnel took her to an Imam in Runjin Sambo area of Sokoto with a claim that
she wanted to convert to Islam.
“I was sent to buy biscuits and on my way I saw him (her
abductor) and he persuaded me to come to his bungalow.”she said Patience said
she was not forced into marriage but that her abductor turned her into a sex
slave at the house of the Sarkin Baki. “Yes, he was forcefully making love to
me any time he wanted. They first took me to Sarkin Baki house, and kept me
there for seven months before my parents came looking for me. They gave me
something to drink, but I refused to take the drink, and they took me to one
room and locked me inside the room. They forcefully made me to turn to Muslim
and gave me another name, Aisha. Some people wanted to marry me, but the Sarkin
Baki refused and said until I finish Islamic school before they marry me
off".
Patience's abductor has been arrested and will soon be
prosecuted.
Source: LIB
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