A police officer, Dominic Jato has reported how his daughter, Halita Dominic Jato was allegedly kidnapped and renamed Hafsat by her abductors, who were identified as Ismail Mohammed and Mallam Adamu Kasarawa of Gidan Igwai area within Sokoto state metropolis.

Jato cried out that nothing has been done to set his daughter free from her abductors despite several complaints to the State Police Command.

He said, “I have been following every legal means to secure the release of my daughter for about two years now.

“This is just because we are in Sokoto to serve our nation. For two years, my daughter has been taken away from me. What my colleagues did to me in Sokoto I am still in shock.”

The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in Sokoto, Al-mustpaha Sani, when contacted denied being aware of the issue.

Sani said, “I don’t know anything about it. You know I am the PRO but I may not know everything that happens. If I get to the office, I will check the files. Is the girl a policeman’s daughter?”

“If a suspect admitted to an offence, the police will not allow it to linger for two years.”

But Pulse gathered that one of the men who abducted the 14 year-old teenager is a relation to a senior officer in the Sokoto State Police Command.

Jato, who said he had lodged all necessary complaints at both the Divisional Level, Sokoto State Police Command and at the office of the AIG Zone 10, added that he keeps seeing the people who abducted his daughter moving freely in Sokoto.

He asked, “Do we have some persons that are above the law in Nigeria?”

Jato, in the complaint letter he presented at the office of the AIG Zone 10, noted that his daughter was taken away when she was 14 years and eight days old.

He explained, “I am writing this letter in order to complain against Ismail Mohammed and Mallam Adamu Kasarawa for kidnapping my daughter, named Halita Dominic Jato. She was born on 1st, July 1999 and was kidnapped and abducted on the 9th, July 2014.

“I conducted a search for her whereabouts among her friends, neighbours and the entire neighbourhood and I found out that she was kidnapped and abducted by Ismail Mohammed in Gidan Igwai area of Sokoto.”

The letter added, “I reported the case to the Police Divisional Head Quarters, Kwanni and the said Ismail Mohammed was invited by the police for questioning. He confessed that the girl Halita Dominic Jato was kidnapped and abducted by him.

“He confessed that, he has moved the girl to the house of Mallam Adamu Kasarawa to be converted to Islam. And he was mandated to bring the girl back to the Police Station to be handed over to me but up till now, the girl has not been handed over to me nor the police.”

He said that when he lodged another complaint to the office of the Police Commissioner in Sokoto, the suspect were invited for questioning, “and I was asked again to wait for the outcome of the investigation but up till now, no clear clue of what the police have done tentatively concerning the case.”

Jato who said the matter has lingered for about two years now because he is going through due process, added that he has exhausted every possible means within his power, but could not secure the release of his daughter.

He added, “Secondly, there was threat to my life and that of my entire family.”