15-year-old Patience Paul who was kidnapped on August 12th last year and forcefully converted to Islam in Sokoto state has recounted her ordeal at the hands of her abductor.
Patience, who hails from Benue state said she was sexually abused by her captor for 7 months before she was freed on March 4th.
It took the intervention of Sokoto state Governor, Aminu Tambuwal before she regained her freedom.
The primary six pupil told Leadership newspapers that her abductor and some Hisbah (Sharia police) personnel took her to an Imam in Runjin Sambo area of Sokoto with a claim that she wanted to convert to Islam.
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“I was sent to buy biscuits and on my way I saw him (her abductor) and he persuaded me to come to his bungalow,” she was quoted as saying.
Patience said she was not forced into marriage but that her abductor turned her into a sex slave at the house of the Sarkin Baki.
“Yes, he was forcefully making love to me any time he wanted. They first took me to Sarkin Baki house, and kept me there for seven months before my parents came looking for me.
They gave me something to drink, but I refused to take the drink, and they took me to one room and locked me inside the room.
They forcefully made me to turn to Muslim and gave me another name, Aisha. Some people wanted to marry me, but the Sarkin Baki refused and said until I finish Islamic school before they marry me off.”
Patience’s abductor has been arrested and will soon be prosecuted.
