Ese’s misfortune, which attracted global outrage, occurred on August 12, 2015, when Yunusa abducted her at the age of 14 from her family house at Opolo area of Yenagoa and took her to his home state, Kano, where he converted her to Islam.
Ese Oruru, the Delta State teenager, who was abducted in 2015 at the age of 14 and impregnated by a man from Kano State, Yunusa Dahiru, got justice on Thursday at the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
On March 21, the first trial judge, Justice Aliya Nganjiwa, granted him bail in the sum of N3 million with two sureties in like sum. She held that the failure of the defence team to produce Abdullahi Zarafat was “fatal to the defence”.The lawyer to the defendant, Kayode Olaosebikan, pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy and give liberal sentence to the accused person.Following the verdict, Olaosebikan said the defence was not comfortable with the aspect of ruling that the sentence should run consecutively.
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