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Following the alleged abduction case of
Bello told the that the abduction was a vindication, further highlighting that in the past all efforts to rescue the victim turns out unsuccessfully.
āThe right thing is now being done. I say this beĀcause we have witnessed a lot of similar situations in Kano State in the past. And many a time, our efforts to return the abductees to their families were unsuccessful. We just hit brick walls.ā
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āWe have pursued such issues in the past without any success. Our ladies were abducted and we had to apĀproach the Islamic groups, for instance, the Hisbah Command, and nothing comes out of it.
āSometimes, they keep the girl(s) with the Hisbah Command. Sometimes, they keep the girl(s) with the local chief of the affected areas, what they call Hakimi.
āI donāt think they are reĀally innocent. Truth is truth. Justice must be seen to be done. How do you abduct even a daughter of a pastor? A pastor, his daughter, was abducted in Kano here and it was a tug of war ā¦.I am not even sure how it was eventuĀally resolved.
āThere was a limit to which anyone can push a matter of this naĀture; otherwise it might lead to religious crisis.
āWe want the other reliĀgion to understand that whatĀever they donāt want us to do them, they should not do it to us. I donāt think we will like to do that to any Muslim girl.
āWe donāt abduct Muslim girls and then, force them into conversion. No! If you marry your wife properly, with all the consents that are needed and your wife decided to be a Christian or Muslim, so be it!
āNobody is against any young couple getting marĀried if they reach the age of marriage, if they are of age; but things should be done properly and, according to all the existing rules of their tradition, culture and faithā, he said.
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