Police Nab Kaduna Women Arranging Girls For Bandits
A special Police unit fighting kidnapping and banditry, the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), has arrested several women in Kaduna state for allegedly arranging sexual liaisons with bandits in the forest.
Reports said that one of the women arrested, a housewife, supplied girls, including her daughters, to bandits at Galadimawa forest in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Identified as Maryam Abubakar, the 39-year-old housewife is said to be a girlfriend of a notorious kidnapper, Isa Ibrahim and competent sources confirmed that she resides at Rugar Hanwa in Sabon Gari Local Government.
It was gathered that after being arrested on December 21, 2021, Maryam confessed to always luring women, including her own daughters and nieces, to the bandits for sexual pleasure.
Maryam said her clients were paying her N20,000 and that the women were being ferried to the forest on motorbikes.
Also arrested was a girl named Fatima Jibril, who, in connivance with her boyfriend, Muslim Abubakar, both residents of the Sakadadi area in Sabon Gari, had also been supplying women to the bandits.
The syndicate was exposed when the girls they had earlier procured from the criminals in the forest couldn’t return.
Another woman, Jummai Ibrahim, was arrested on the suspicion that she had been engaging in an affair with the bandits’ kingpin in the forest.
Jummai said she submitted herself to the bandits’ kingpin to protect her children and her father from their wraths because the bandits threatened to kill them, even after they had rustled the family’s cattle.
According to some of the women, they had passed the night only once with the bandits, even as one of them said the gunmen were living alongside their wives, only that they are hosted at different locations separate from their families.
One of the girls hinted that the gunmen are always inseparable from their guns round the clock and they have also stockpiled food to last them for several weeks. – With PM NEWS report
