Operatives of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) have apprehended an engineer for allegedly converting a Muslim girl to Christianity in Plateau state.
Engr Simput
Controversy is trailing the alleged conversion of a Muslim girl to Christianity as the girl’s father is said to have requested the intervention of members of the State Security Service (SSS) who allegedly arrested the girl’s male friend, Engineer Simput Eagles Dafup in Plateau State.
According to
Daily Trust, 18-year-old Nabila Umar Sanda, and daughter of a traditional title holder in Biu, Borno State, was reported to have been abducted in Abuja on December 1, 2017.
Unable to reach Nabila, who finished from Air Force Comprehensive College, Jos and a 200 Level student of Mass Communication at the Bingham University in Nasarawa State, her father was said to have reported to the SSS that his daughter was missing following which she was traced to the house of one Pastor Jerry Datim in Jos.
While speaking to a correspondent, Datim said on phone that Nabila had converted to Christianity while at Bingham University and had met Dafup, a lecturer, in Ghana four years ago on a flight to Dubai.
The victim's mum at press conference
The pastor said Nabila had recently reconnected with Dafup who was visiting Jos for the Christmas break and expressed her intentions to fully convert to Christianity.
Pastor Jerry further explained that though Nabila’s father was aware of her intention to convert, he had said it was unacceptable by him.
“After they assaulted my family, I took the matter to the Plateau State Administrative Secretary of JNI, Sheikh Abdulazeez Yusuf, who was unhappy with the development and arranged a meeting with the SSS.
"Even at the SSS office, when they asked why I didn’t take the girl to the police station, it was the JNI that answered by telling them that we have been working together to resolve such issues without involving security.”
Dafup’s mother, Lydia Istifanus Dafup yesterday in a press conference said her son had been tortured before being taken away and pleaded for his release.
She said the men who stormed her son's premises heavily armed in 5 Hilux van brutalized and torture him before they whisked him away.
According to her, ”nobody has contacted me or any member of my family as to the where about of my son. I, however, know as a fact that some of the people that were found in the premises with my son and who were also assaulted and brutalized with my son were taken to the Plateau state command of DSS.”
She further stressed; “While at the DSS office in Jos, they never met or saw my son there. The men suspected to have whisked my son put a mask on him and the others. The other people who were taken to DSS office in a mask are here with me to confirmed my narration."