Ms Rose Chukwu
More facts have emerged on how Rose Chukwu, an indigene of Ebonyi
State who was kidnapped, converted to Islam and forced to marry one
Olatunji Sulyman from Kwara state.
Rose in an interview with The AUTHORITY in Abuja, revealed that she
was made to loss her senses immediately she drank a concoction given to
her by an Islamic cleric-Alfa.
She revealed that the first few days she want to see Sulyman in Kwara
State, she was taken to the Alfa who gave her the concoction to drink,
after¬wards she could not remember, nor call her family members again
for a period of over 7 years.
According to her, it was when the concoction was beginning to lose
its potency that she remembered that the people she was living all these
years was not her family members. She then began to remember her family
members and began to make moves to reunite with her family.
Rose revealed that: “I was invited to Kwara State by Tunji. When I
got there, he was just a friend. They then told me to visit one Alfa and
that it is a process of turning me into a Muslim. I was shocked by the
whole thing.
All I could remember was that the Alfa gave me a concoction (agbo)
which I drank. After that everything changed. I did not go home, I did
not call home and I did not even have anything to do with my fam¬ily for
over 7 years.
“So, after everything started making sense to me, I then started looking for my sister and was planning to leave.
“When they discovered that I was planning to leave, they now told me
that they want to get married to me and I insisted that I was not
interested in the marriage.
“On December 12, last year, Tunji’s father called me and told me that
he wanted me to stay. Because I was al¬ready planning of leaving,
considering that I was the only person there, I cannot force my way even
if I wanted to. I don’t have any family member in Kwara State, they are
the only people I know there. I severally told Tunji that I was going
to leave.
But he usually replies me that I cannot leave in peace but rather in
pieces. He vowed that ei¬ther my people would come and carry my coffin
or I would remain there. I know that he will make true his threat. I
decided to lie low and strategies on whatever I want to do.”
She further explained that: “On December 16, Tunji’s father called me
again to the family house that there is an emergency. When I got there,
everybody was seated including the Alfa. They said that they wanted to
marry me formally in an Islamic way.
I told them that it was not possible because none of my family
members was there. They said that it was not necessary that one Tunji’s
uncle is going to stand for me. They then brought the man to stand for
me as my father. I was in so much agony and told them that I am not
going to be a party to this.
One of his uncle then called me and advised me that the best thing I
will do is to do whatever they told me to do, if not they may kill me. I
was afraid for my life and that of my children. All that I could do was
to do all that they wanted.
“After the marriage that day, I then left the place. But on December
20, Tunji then got married to another lady and on December 27, they left
for Dubai for honey moon. I then picked all my things and my children
and left.”
What amazed Rose most, according to her, was how the Tunji sent the police to trail her wherever she ran to.
“His parents informed him that I have left.
He then came back and started using the police to threaten all my
family members. He used the police to come and arrest my mother and my
younger brother and everybody that was close to me. To my surprise, the
police were just doing his biddings.
“When I discovered that my life and that of my children are not safe,
I then relocated to Enugu. But to my utmost surprised, on January 27, I
was in my house when some two gentlemen came in that they were from the
FCT Police Command.
They said that they came for my arrest. I then called my neighbours
and told them to take care of my children and that they should not
release them to anybody even if they come in the form of police. When
they took me to the police command in Enugu, they police said that they
order given to them was to lock me up. But after heated argument, they
then rented a hotel for me to stay near the police command and the
following day, they took me and my children back to Abuja.
“On reaching Abuja, they were planning to detain me when my lawyer
arrived and they left me on bail. They ordered the police man to follow
me to my brother’s place where I was staying.
When I returned to the FCT command the following day, they told me to
go back and return the on Monday which I did. When I came, to told me
to go back and bring my children in¬sisting that, that was the
instruction of the Commissioner of Police.
When I brought them, my child was kidnapped in the presence of the police and they did nothing about it,” she noted.
However, Rose’s mother, Edit Chukwu, has raised the alarm that the
acclaimed husband of her daughter, Olatunji has for several days been
threatening life.
She therefore called on the federal government and well meaning
Nigeri¬ans to protect her and her family from extinction as he has vowed
to eliminate them.
“I am calling on the government and all well meaning Nigerians to
come to my aid as strange people hover around my house in odd hours. I
don’t feel safe.
“Tunji did not marry my daughter. Nobody gave her to him. He did not
know where I came from . He is saying that I came from Adamawa, but that
is not true,” she reiterated.
Source: Authority.
