ESE ORURU'S PARENTS BEMOAN NEGLECT BY GOVERNMENT

Barely seven months after Ese Oruru was rescued from her abductor, her parents have said they are no longer comfortable with their daughter’s continuous stay in police protective custody, which they described as uncomfortable for a nursing mother and her baby.

The 14-year-old girl and native of Delta State but resident in Bayelsa state, was allegedly abducted on August 12, 2015 and taken from Yenagoa to Kano where she was converted to Islam and married by her abductor, Yunusa Dahiru, aka Yellow.

However, when Ese was rescued and returned to Yenagoa in March, police authorities discovered she was five months pregnant.

The teenager delivered of a child in May.

Ese has been at the Police Officers’ Mess, Yenagoa, the state capital, even after she delivery and her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Charles Oruru, on Monday, lamented her absence from school.

According to them, denying their daughter her freedom through protective custody while the accused person roamed the streets on bail was ‘ironic’.

Ese’s mother, Rose, said her daughter lacked the proper care expected of a nursing mother.

Rose said, “People from Bayelsa have been assisting us and even the police officers, we want to leave there to our house because the place (Police Officers Mess) is not a good place to stay and bring up a new born baby.

“We are just abandoned in a room that we are not even allowed to go out. We stay with our trash bin which is smelling. We and the new born baby are compelled to breathe the offensive smell.

“So the world should note that we are being marginalised for no reason, as the boy Yunusa is still owing me some money after taking my daughter to Kano to impregnate her for me.”

On his part, her father, Charles said their daughter had been denied freedom under the guise of protection.

While lamenting that Ese and her baby were not properly catered for in their protective custody in the officers’ mess, he lamented that Ese was supposed to be in school adding that her daughter had lost a school year following the saga.

Charles said, “My daughter has been yearning and even crying to go back to school as her classmates are now ahead of her, she has lost a whole year to this saga and she is still in Police protective custody while the accused person is enjoying freedom on bail.

“I am begging the Delta State Government, Nigeria and the world at large to come to our aide.

“Nowadays without education one is going to nowhere, so she is not doing anything in their custody, while the accused move freely and she is suffering there.

“I have called on the Delta govt. to assist because I have five children which Ese is the second to the last child, so my state should come to my family aide”