I handed Ese to police last year –Sanusi

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The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sunusi II, has cleared the air over the controversy surrounding the alleged abduction and forced marriage of 15-year-old Ese Oruru. Ese was said to have been abducted in Bayelsa State, converted to Islam and married off to a man in Kano.

But Sanusi, who had faced public opprobrium over his alleged role in the issue, said yesterday he had handed over the girl to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Tabari Yabo, in charge of Zone 1, since last year. He said: “I have since September handed over the girl, because she is underage, to the Kano AIG, Tabari Yabo, for onward transportation to her family in Bayelsa. “On understanding that the girl is after all an underage person of 15 years, I ordered that she should be taken back to her parents.