How my 15-year-old daughter was abducted, forcefully converted to Islam and married off at Emir’s palace– Katsina septuagenarian farmer
Published 27 April 2021
Mani Bajo is a 75-year-old farmer and father of a 15-year-old girl, Aishat, who was said to have been recently converted to Islam and forcefully married off without the consent of her parents in Ugwa DanDada, a sleepy agrarian community with a population of around 1,500 in the Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State. The septuagenarian tells his story to OLAIDE OYELUDE in this interview conducted in Hausa
Can you introduce yourself and where you hail from?
I am Mani Bajo. I am 75-year-old and a farmer. I was born here at Ugwa DanDada in the Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State. I grew up here and I married here. I have lived my life here in the community.