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Bandit Attacks: Protesting Zamfara Women Block Gusau-Kaduna Road
A whole bunch of ladies in Tsafe Native Authorities Space of Zamfara State on Thursday blocked Gusau-Kaduna Street to protest towards persistent assaults by bandits regardless of safety measures by the state authorities.
Gusau-Kaduna highway is the busiest highway because it hyperlinks the state to a number of different states each within the North and the South.
The ladies, who have been with their kids and belongings, sat on the highway and prevented motion for motorists and passersby on the highway.
The protesters precipitated gridlock and a whole bunch of motorists have been left stranded as they might neither transfer ahead nor backward.
One of many ladies, who gave her identify as Sadiya, instructed Pressinformant that they determined to protest as a result of bandits have been all the time attacking and raping them and there had been no motion taken to guard them.
Sadiya mentioned, “We blocked the highway with the intention to draw the eye of each the federal government and the safety brokers to come back to our rescue.”
One other girl, Talatu Sani, mentioned sheleft her village of Cediya as a result of the bandits used to go to the village to rape ladies and steal their meals and animals.
“I be part of the protest as a result of the authorities will not be doing something to guard us from this hopeless state of affairs.”
A industrial driver, Musa Shehu saidhe was coming from Funtua to Gusau, lamenting that he spent greater than 4 hours earlier than the highway was cleared by the safety brokers.
Efforts have been made to speak to the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Mohammed Shehu, with out success as he didn’t decide up his calls. He had but to answer to a textual content message despatched to him on the protest.
Equally, the state Commissioner of Safety, DIG Mamman Tsafe (retd.), an indigine of Tsafe LGA, didn’t make any remark when contacted on the phone by our reporter.
