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ABDUCTION AND FORCEFUL ISLAMISATION OF A CHRISTIAN MINOR IN JAMBUTU, JIMETA-YOLA, ADAMWA STATE, UNDER THE WATCH OF WAKILIN MAI JIMILA AND THE STATE MAGISTRATE COURT
Today we are saddened again with another unfortunate story of Islamic intimidation, forceful abduction, and forced Islamisation of another Christian teenage girl, Miss Georgia Miracle. She is an orphan child who lost her father in 2015, when she was six years old. she was brought up by her widowed mother, Mrs Haina Miracle, who struggled through pains and lack to bring up Georgia, from childhood to this teenage level. She burst into tears when she said, bringing up Georgia as a single mother, ten years after my husband’s death was a nightmare I wished nobody encountered in life. She said she struggled to keep restaurant business flowing in order to meet the demands of livelihood. I struggled with my daughter without any external assistance from Primary to Secondary School; school fees, clothing, feeding, and medical bills were quite frustrating. my moments of silence were filled with tears and depression, but I hid it from my daughter and those around me.
Mrs Haina Miracle said she enrolled her daughter to learn tailoring under a Muslim young man, Auwal Salihu, close to where she operates her restaurant. Due to low patronage, as a result of the Ramadan season, Mrs Haina Miracle (Georgia’s mother) put a paused to her business, and since then, report kept coming to her that her daughter Georgia, doesn’t stay in the tailoring shop, rather she disappears and comes back home by evening time. Out of annoyance, her mother stops her from going to the tailoring shop, she asked her to wait until after Ramadan, when she will be in the shop to observe her movement. The moment Georgia heard this, she got annoyed and left home on Thursday, the 13th of March, 2025. On Saturday, 15th of March 2025, barely three days after the disappearance of my daughter, the Wakili mai jimilan Jambutu, mallam Abubakar Nuhu, came to my house and said my attention is needed at the court on Monday, 17th March 2025, over the case of my missing daughter, so he said I should come over to the court for hearing , and he added that I should not come alone, I should come along with my brother. According to them, it was my 16 years old daughter that sued me to the court.
When the presiding Magistrate, Abubakar Diddat asked my daughter to say what happened, my daughter said, she wants to marry and she wants to islamised but I her mother is stopping her from doing so. The magistrate was furious, he said that wasn’t the report you gave to this court, you said your mother beat you and burnt your clothes and threaten to kill you because you want to Islamise and marry a Muslim boy, so kicked she kicked you out of home, was that what you told me? My daughter was quiet. the Magistrate out of anger, asked her to leave the courtroom, I told him that my daughter has never discussed the issue of Marriage and Islamisation to me.
At last, we were advised to go home and settle the matter between Christian and Muslim elders. We met in the house of the Wakilin Maijimila, on Wednesday, 19TH 2025, who told me that my daughter has converted to Islam and it is her right to choose the religion she wanted. Members of Adamawa Concern Citizens, who were predominantly Muslims, headed by Gambo Nakuru, said they were the ones who Islamised my daughter because she said she wants to accept Islam I went on to tell them that, my daughter will not Islamised, and she won’t marry a Muslim because she is still a minor, she is not up to the legal age to decide for herself. Hajiya Aisha, who is keeping my daughter in custody, said, Who told you that? They have been Islamising and marrying out girls under 18 years old; my daughter’s case will not be exceptional. It ended in fierce debate and disagreement, so we were asked to return to the court today.
I want justice. I am a widow and a single mother who struggled all alone to fend for her daughter, I don’t have the strength to fight this battle alone. Prominent Muslim personalities converged against me to take my daughter away from me and to forcefully change her religion. I am appealing to people of good conscience to come to my aid.
WE WILL GET TO THE END OF THIS IN JESUS CHRIST GLORIFIED NAME AMEN.
Rev. DAVID AYUBA AZZAMAN
