The Nation Newspaper Bandit boys of the northwest (2)
If there is another storm that Nigeria should be worried about, it is the influx of teenage boys into armed banditry.
Reacting to the recent attacks, Kaduna governor, Uba Sani, blamed the state’s inability to end banditry on poorly equipped local security. Until Kaduna became the epicentre of banditry, Zamfara was its major hub in Nigeria’s northwest. The scourge persists across the region due to the conscription of boys by bandit groups.
In another incident, a young boy narrated, in a viral video, how he was taught to shoot and kill by one Alhaji in Gidan Kaso village in the Birnin Magaji area of Zamfara State. The teenager claimed he had used his rifle uncountable times, adding that members of his gang, had kidnapped so many women. Some of those abducted were raped and killed, he said.While kidnap for ransom and armed robbery constitute a nationwide scourge, the situation in Zamfara is particularly worrisome.
In a sad twist, they have taken criminals and bandit leaders as their heroes and role models. And this explains why a lot of boys are joining criminal gangs. Rather than be repulsed by his viciousness, the teenagers whose lives have been ripped apart by the carnage he perpetrates, aspire to his notoriety.
Eventually, some husbands learn to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, bidding dawn to intrude apace and rid them of tyrant imagery of their wives splayed apart before bandit goons, their ripped moans spearing their peace through the night.
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