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« on: April 22, 2016, 09:49:18 PM »
I find Ese and Yunusa's story particularly infuriating because the truth is as clear as
night and day yet, the loudest voices totally ignore it, fueling the media propaganda.
It's obvious that Ese and Yunusa were two silly teenagers in love that decided to elope in fear of how their
immediate community would react if they found out they were together.
Ese clearly knew what she was doing, in fact, it was on her insistence that Yunusa took her. If you read the
letter she wrote, you'll see he initially refused to run away with her and went to Kano alone. She was hurt
by this and kept writing to him so he returned to take her.
Judging from the letter also, you'll see that Ese was exposed to a lot of men at her parents' food kiosk and
apparently, nearly four-five men were interested in having a relationship with her. So even if it wasn't
Yunusa, Ese would have eloped with one of the others.
Her parents need to ask themselves why such a vulnerable young girl was exposed to so many men at
such a young age (that's if she's really 13, not 17 as they claim).
Did they not notice at all? Or did they turn a blind eye because her flirtation brought customers to the kiosk?
I understand their pain, I mean no parent would be happy if their teenager runs away to marry a man of a
different religion. However, they need to stop heaping all the blame on Yunusa. If they have a problem
with their daughter being a Muslim, they should face her squarely and drop the 'brainwashed, kidnapped
and forcefully converted' act because it is clearly a lie. They simply used the "forcefully converted to Islam"
angle to score cheap publicity points and the media jumped on it!
It's a shame really how easily the truth is manipulated in Nigerian journalism.
I have very little respect such journalists.