Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called for rapid trial of a pastor in Kaduna, Jonah Gangers.
The pastor is blamed for “stealing” a Muslim young lady, Sadiya Idris. The case is now in court.
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On Friday, Muslim Rights chief, Ishaq Akintola, in an assertion, said Sadiya of Tudun Nupawa in Kaduna, was purportedly seized in 2013 by Gangers who lived in Barakallahu, Kaduna, and has his congregation there.
The defendant was purportedly helped by a resident distinguished as Peter.
Akintola noticed that Sadiya was kept against her desire in Gangers’ home until the suspects moved her.
He reviewed that the casualty’s folks looked wherever to no end for their missing girl and afterward lodged the issue at Gidan Gayu Police Divisional Headquarters in Tudun Wada, Kaduna.
“Rev. Gangers and his accomplices took Sadiya to Plateau State, forcefully and illegally converted her and finally registered her as Christiana Gangers Joseph in a missionary school in the state. The girl was kept in captivity for seven years (2013 – 2020) both in school and also in the reverend’s house in Kaduna during the holidays as she was not allowed to step out alone.
“Sadiya Idris (Christiana Gangers) eventually escaped in 2020 on a day she was sent to the market alone. She remembered her original background and approached Muslims in a mosque in Jos who took her to Kaduna where she guided them to her father’s house. Although Rev. Gangers was arrested, he was granted bail and he is freely roaming the streets of Kaduna.
“The case was adjourned by the Magistrate Court I on the first hearing to 18th September, 2020. Again it was adjourned to 16th October, 2020. But the judge ruled on 16th October that the Magistrate Court had no jurisdiction on the matter. He, therefore, referred it to the Kaduna State Ministry of Justice for advice. We expected the matter to go to the High Court at that juncture but to our surprise it was referred back to the Magistrate Court where a new date of 23rd November, 2020 has just been given.”
MURIC decried the “ding-dong affair”, cautioning that hesitation is the criminal of time and that equity deferred is equity denied.
The Islamic association blamed Gangers for manhandling the provisions of his bail and endeavoring to undercut the law.
The assertion requested that Gangers be re-captured to get subtleties of his associates from him.
Akinola demanded that those embroiled be arraigned alongside the fundamental suspect.
MURIC called Gangers’ case that Sadiya was lost and he discovered her a “cock and bull story”, asking why he didn’t answer to the police or go to a shelter.
Akintola cautioned that a risky game was happening in the North, adding that Muslim kids are being focused by Christians who hijack and take them to inaccessible grounds.
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