Bandits Raping Our Wives – Monarch Cries For Help

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Clearly distressing times are here for the traditional ruler of Dnata Chiefdom located in Tafa Town along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, Chief Bitrus James, and he is not ready to pretend that all is well with him and his utterly tormented subjects.

Consequently, he is raising an alarm over the atrocities being committed against his people by bandits who constantly terrorise various communities under his jurisdiction.

Chief James said apart from sacking most of the communities, their women and wives are unfortunately exposed to the danger of rape and other abuses by the marauding criminal elements on a daily basis.

An unhappy Chief James said it is most dehumanizing that the assailants always forced wives of the villagers to cook food for them, after raping the hapless women.

He also lamented that the activities of these heartless bandits have restrained his subjects from farming and engaging in other very productive ventures to sustain their livelihoods.

The Royal Father whose community was carved out of Kagarko in 2022 by the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, listed Gadunda, Kwakulu, Jida, Isa, Kuyeri and Mpape as the six communities that have unfortunately been sacked by the bandits.

Further lamenting that the bandits ravaged Gadunda community on December 2, 2023 and ordered villagers to vacate the area and can only return if they pay N10 million as levy, Chief James said some herders close to the hamlet, who initially ignored the order, had to flee the community when the bandits started slaughtering their chickens and other animals for consumption.

He said aside from Gadunda, the other five communities are having the same harrowing experience from the criminal activities being perpetrated by the bandits, noting that between 300 and 500 kidnappers were currently operating various criminal camps within and around the communities.

According to him, between December 24 and now, the bandits have carried out several operations, moving from one community to another and abducting their victims at will without any response from the relevant security agencies.

James, who is pioneer traditional ruler of Dnata Chiefdom, further said; “They first went to Gami village and abducted some residents, then Tafa-Pai, Tafa-Gari, as well as Pariga, where they killed three people and abducted 10 others.”

“They also killed three people in Mpape, a village under Kagarko Local Government Area, not that of the FCT.”

Chief James also lamented that despite a N10 million ransom being paid by residents of one of the villages called Parigy, the kidnappers still went ahead to kill one of the victims and placed another N10 million demand as a new condition to release the remaining 10 people in their custody.

In the case of Mpape, he disclosed that after paying the ransom, the bandits still demanded six special motorcycles, each costing N1.5 million from the community in what they labeled “protection levy”.

Speaking on the latest incident, which occurred in Jidna in the early hours of Friday, January 12, 2024, with seven residents were kidnapped in the process, the monarch said the bandits seemed to operate in synergy with their counterparts around forests in the FCT, Niger, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.

He said this situation is clearly confirmed by the manner the bandits readily swap their victims in different directions to make them feel that they are being ferried away to faraway places and unknown destinations.

Urging the Federal and Kaduna State governments to come to their aid, Chief James stated thus; “We need a similar synergy among our neighbouring states to achieve a desired goal. I have earmarked 100 hectares of land within my domain and urged the Chief of Defence Staff to use it for military barracks.

“This is a very strategic location next to Abuja. We hope that our governor, Senator Uba Sani, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Chief of Defence Staff would come together to achieve this.

“My people don’t know any profession apart from farming, yet their means of livelihood is being threatened by these bandits who demand up to N10 million from a farmer who has never seen such amount of money in his lifetime.’

“For the sake of our proximity to Abuja, this issue shouldn’t be taken lightly”, the obviously frustrated Chief posited. – With Daily Trust report

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