How Bandits Force Oppressed Victims To Release Their Wives, Daughters For Sex

The banditry situation in the North West is assuming a new dimension as armed gangs have continued to terrorise residents of Katsina, Zamfara and neighboring states.

In an interview with BBC Hausa, Dr Bashir Kurfi, a community leader said villages of Batsari, Dutsenma, Kankiya, Chiranci, Funtua, Safana, amongst others in Katsina, were under siege.

Kurfi said bandits and terrorists were occupying some villages, while the inhabitants were seeking refuge elsewhere.

“In so many villages the bandits also call households and ask them to send to them their wives, daughters or sisters to sleep with them.”

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“Apart from the incessant attacks and killings of innocent people, they also rape the women. I know of a woman who was gang raped by over 40 bandits. So many schools closed because of banditry have now becomes home to bandits; and in some other villages people are already living together with the bandits at their homes.