ICC Note: A Christian teenage girl who was previously abducted from Bayelsa State, Nigeria in order to forcibly marry a Muslim in Kano State has now returned to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Police reportedly whisked her away quickly before journalists could photograph or interview her about her experience. The case represents yet another heart-wrenching challenge Christians face in Nigeria where radical Muslims continue to abduct Christian girls into a life of forced conversion and sexual slavery. The most famous case in Nigeria is the Chibok girls who remain missing after Islamist terrorists Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 of them in April 2015 and have reportedly sold many as brides to other fighters. 

3/2/16 Abuja, Nigeria (AllAfrica) – Ese Oruru, the teenager who was abducted from her Bayelsa home and moved to Kano for a forced marriage to one Yunusa Yellow, has arrived Abuja from Kano.

Miss Oruru was driven into the Nigeria Police Headquarters in Abuja at exactly 12.55 pm, our reporter said.

Dressed in a native attire and white hijab, she was accompanied into the complex by by two women and three men, all dressed in Hausa native attires.

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