Family of Another 14-Year-Old Girl Cry Out Over Daughter’s Abduction

In a case similar to 14-year-old Ese Oruru’s, the family of a missing 14-year-old girl, Patience Paul, have alleged that their daughter, a primary six pupil of Mohammed Zako Model Primary School, Sokoto, may have been abducted and housed at the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto.

According to Vanguard, the girl’s dad, Mr. Paul Adaji, an indigene of Ochobo in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State who resides in Sokoto with his family, said his daughter had been missing since August 12, 2015.

Alleging that some persons spotted his daughter at the Sultan’s palace, he said,

“We got information that she was in the Sultan’s palace and the last time we went there, we did not find her. Some people told us that they saw her at the palace. They also used to camp some of them there, that was why we went to the palace to see if she has been taken there.

Even her friend, who used to be a Christian, was found there. She was taken there and they converted her. We will still continue to search for her. We will not give up; we only want the world to help us so that our daughter can be released to us.”

His son, Paul Isaac Adaji, added,

“Patience is my younger sister. We are based in Sokoto. That is where the issue occurred. My dad is in Sokoto but we lost our mother two years ago. My younger sister was brain-washed from school, Mohammed Zako Model Primary school, Sokoto. She is a primary six pupil. The fact is that sometime last year, we noticed she started keeping some funny friends and her attitude started changing. This is a girl that normally likes attending church activities. We cautioned her but along the line, she changed. Then again, she started misbehaving. So at that point, my parent and I decided to move her out of Sokoto and return her to Benue State so the rumours of children converting does not happen to us as we do not have anybody to fight for us.

Unfortunately, what we were scared of later happened to us. Sometimes we will see her returning from school with a veil covering her head. When we inquired, she said it was given to her by her friend in school. We cautioned her on several occasions. But we later arranged with my dad to get her back to Benue. Unfortunately, she got to know about our plan to send her back to Benue and obviously informed the people who were brainwashing her and they eventually abducted her. When we could not see her, we started serious investigation and along the line, discovered that it was one of our neighbours who actually abducted her. We reported to the police…

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From what we gathered, from last year up to early this year, she was in the Sultan’s palace, but she has been taken away from there since last month. We went there with my other sister to check and they brought a different person to us. From our investigations, she is not the only one because the two girls they brought did not look like real Muslims.”

A source in Sokoto said that the girl was actually abducted and kept at the Sultan’s palace. The source also noted that the teenager was not the only person abducted and hidden at the palace, adding that three other girls were in the palace.

The Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, Salisu Fagge, has however said,

“It is not true. I have not received such report from anybody. We relate very well with the palace… and such report has never come to me. If we had got it, we would have taken prompt action. Please ask the man to see me in the office without delay if what he is saying is true.”