Secrets Reporters
Nigeria woke to a document that reads less like a petition and more like an indictment of the state itself. Obtained by SecretsReporters, the explosive legal brief accuses a serving officer of the State Security Services (SSS) of abducting a minor, abusing power under the cloak of uniform, and dragging an entire institution into a moral abyss that has now claimed a life.
At the heart of the storm is Walida Abdulhadi, a teenager from Jigawa State who vanished more than two years ago. She was sixteen, by law a child, by conscience untouchable. Her disappearance, according to the petition, plunged her family into a long night of anguish, a relentless search that swung between hope and despair, and a trauma so severe it would later become fatal.
The document alleges that the girl was taken by Ifeanyi Festus, identified as a serving SSS officer. What followed, the petition claims, was not a clandestine crime in a dark alley but an audacious abuse carried out within the walls of a SSS estate, an allegation that, if proven, transforms private criminality into institutional complicity.
In a chilling turn, the father’s representative, Muhammad Badamasi Ibrahim, was reportedly led to a SSS facility at Karmajiji, Abuja. There, he was told that Walida had been living within the SSS estate throughout her disappearance. When he demanded her release to her family, access was allegedly denied, placing the child beyond the reach of her own father, under what the petition calls “institutional protection.”
The document further alleges that during this period of unlawful custody, the minor was subjected to acts that Nigerian law treats with zero ambiguity. It claims she was coerced into a change of religion without parental consent and exploited by a superior adult wielding state authority, resulting in pregnancy and childbirth, events said to have occurred while she was still legally incapable of consent.
Then came the call that tore the wound open. On January 1, 2026, after more than two years of silence, the grieving father reportedly received a phone call from a man who identified himself as Ifeanyi Festus. With unsettling casualness, the caller allegedly said Walida had been with him all along, had given birth to his child, and that he was now “ready to marry her,” instructing the father to come to Abuja.
But the story’s darkest chapter is written in loss. The petition states that Walida’s mother died from the crushing weight of grief, anxiety, and sustained psychological trauma caused by her daughter’s disappearance. “A mother is dead today because her child was taken and hidden from her,” the document declares, words that hang like a verdict over the nation.
What makes the allegations particularly incendiary is the claim that other officers knew. The petition insists the acts were not hidden but occurred with the knowledge of colleagues who either shielded the offender or chose silence.
“This is not just abuse of office; it is moral bankruptcy in uniform,” the petition thunders. It warns that to treat the matter casually would send a terrifying message, that state power can be used to steal children, silence families, and escape justice without consequence.
Accordingly, the petition demands immediate suspension, arrest, and prosecution of the accused officer; an independent investigation into the SSS facility at Karmajiji; the immediate release and protection of Walida and her child; and severe sanctions against any personnel found complicit by action or silence.
The document insists that anything less than decisive action would stain not just the SSS, but the conscience of Nigeria itself.