By Emegwoako C. Paschal
Musa Ali Maishanu, the North East Regional Coordinator of a non-governmental organization (NGO), Global Pan-Africanism Network Nigeria (GPAN), from Gombe State, has been detained and prosecuted by the state police for allegedly threatening to organize a protest against the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, October 30th, the activist’s lawyer, Ibrahim Ambore Nuhu, said his client threatened NAPTIP with protest for allegedly refusing to treat with justice, a case of a 27-year-old woman, Hauwa’u Musa, popularly known as ‘Ladidi’ in the state, who was taken from the state when she was a little girl to Adamawa State, and married off when she became an adult without her mother’s consent.
According to him, his client, through his group (GPAN), handed over the case to NAPTIP for investigation and necessary action after receiving it, claiming that the agency released the culprits involved in the case on the same day without taking appropriate action.
As a result of Nuhu’s threat, a protest against the NAPTIP to demand justice for the girl was organized. As a result, NAPTIP reported him to DSS, who detained him and turned him over to the police CID, who later arraigned him in the state’s Chief Magistrate Court 8.
