Parents of the two female university students who disappeared from school, cries to Buhari and the Nigerian Police

Parents of two female undergraduates of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria, who mysteriously disappeared from school on February 6, 2016, without trace have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and the police authorities to help locate the whereabouts of their daughters and ensure their safe return. 

Hawanat Adebanke Yusuf, 25 and Nasirat Oyeyemi, 18, both friends and 200 level students of Nursing left the school around 4pm after informing their room mates that they were going to buy some food items at Sabon-Geri market in the city. That was the last time anybody set eyes on them.

 The distraught parents, Ibrahim Yusuf, 54, an indigene of Osun state residing at number 12, Alhaji Lasisi street, Idioro, Mushin, Lagos state and Oyeyemi Amisu, 54, from Kwara state said after they were informed of their daughters’ disappearance, they reported the case to the police in Kaduna. 

How they got Missing Yusuf said; 

 “Both Hawanat and Nasirat live were in Queen Amina girls hostel, ABU, Zaria. On Sunday February 6th, 2016, at about 4pm, the two girls told their room-mates that they were going to buy some food items at Sabon Geri market, very close to their school. To the dismay of their colleagues, both friends did not return that same day. The room mates felt that they could have gone to see their relations hoping that they would return for lectures the following day Monday but, unfortunately, they did not return. Their colleagues were therefore worried and they began looking for our contacts in Zaria. When they contacted our relations in Zaria, it was discovered that the girls did not come to them and this heightened the suspicion that the girls might be missing."



When my relation in Zaria called to inform me about the development. On Tuesday morning, I embarked on a journey with my son, Ismail, to Kaduna and we met Nasirat’s father at the campus security post. We narrated our story to the security men at the post who sent one of them to go with us to Samaru Police station, very close to the school. We narrated the incident to the Divisional Police Officer and also asked him if it was possible to make a report at MTN office so that they could be traced through their phones. The DPO however asked us not to do so, saying that it was likely the girls eloped with their male friends. He later advised us to take the case to Kaduna State Security office in Zaria. When we got there, the officer in charge collected some information from us and promised to get back to us.

We are therefore calling on President, Mohammadu Buhari, the governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the Inspector- General of police and all other security agencies in the country to intervene. We are appealing to them to please use their good offices to trace the whereabouts of our daughters. We believe that with their intervention, we will surely welcome our daughters back to us.