{"id":2079,"date":"2023-06-02T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T10:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T10:57:46","slug":"25-years-old-woman-held-captive-by-her-father-rescued-in-jigawa-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/25-years-old-woman-held-captive-by-her-father-rescued-in-jigawa-state\/","title":{"rendered":"25 YEARS OLD WOMAN HELD CAPTIVE BY HER FATHER RESCUED IN JIGAWA STATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"section-g259ac8\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g259ac8 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jigawa.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps have rescued a 25-year-old woman allegedly locked in a room for years by her father in Jigawa State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirming the incident, the spokesman of the Jigawa State NSCDC Command, CSC Adamu Shehu, said that the rescue followed a complaint lodged at the NSCDC State Command Headquarters by one human rights activist that a girl of about 25 years named Ummi was locked up in a room within the house for several years without being allowed to come out by her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shehu said the NSCDC operatives went to the said house and rescued the girl, who looked unkempt and depressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that the room in which she was living served as her toilet, where she urinates, and her food was served on a bare floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesman disclosed that the officials have arrested 67-year-old Garba Musa, her biological father, and his 50-year-old wife, Aisha Abubakar, both from Takur site, Dutse Local Government Area, Jigawa State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When quizzed as to the reason for his action, Musa narrated that his daughter was locked up because she is suffering from a mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that she was causing a disturbance in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, investigations are currently ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He explained that the room in which she was living served as her toilet, where she urinates, and her food was served on a bare floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[101,34,31,20,67,24,18],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada_nigeria-canadadev-actionaidnigeria-unwomen-nigeriawomenmatter","tag-abuse","tag-actionaidnigeria","tag-genderequality","tag-nigerianarmy-nigerianpolice-humanrightviolation-insecurity-humanrightabuse","tag-feminism","tag-safety-and-security"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}