A federal high court sitting in Yenogoa,the Bayelsa state capital,has sentenced yinusa Dahiru to 26 years imprisonment over the abduction,rape and impregnating of Ese Oruru,a teenage girl.
In 2015,13 years old Oruru was abducted,raped and impregnanted by Yinusa Dahiru,a man presumably old enough to be her father.
The man later took her away to Kano state where she was later rescued in the palace of the Emir of Kano.
The incident led to national outrage in 2015 with calls for more of forcefully married teenagers in the Northern part of the country to be freed.
Presiding judge,Justice Jane Inyang,acquitted the accused on the first count be convicted Dahiru on the remaining four charges.
The judge ruled that the sentence will run consecutively concerning the case of Dahiru who raped and impregnanted Ese Oruru.
Justice jane Inyang,has convicted the accused on the remaining charges that follows on the first count.Ese oruru was abducted by the accused and impregnanted by him.
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