The people of Unguwar Dan fili, Unguwar Isiyaka and many villages in Funtua local government, area of katsina state outcry how they are migrating to the town solely to sleep in the town and then come back to their houses in the morning. They have lamented on how people are afraid of the activities of the heavily armed-bandits which enforced many residents in those areas to migrate to the town every evening. The heinous activities of armed banditry, which entail abduction, raping, maiming , cattle rustling and kidnapping for ransom, are intensifying mostly this time, during harvest season.
It’s quite disheartening of how people, who are living in the outskirts of Funtua, are walking away from their houses on their feet every evening as well as their children to shelter in the town. One could almost shed tears seeing how man woman, old, young, children and, above all, people with living with disabilities are leaving their comfort zones in order to escape the attack of armed-bandits.
The activities of these evil-minded kidnappers have rendered several children orphans, widowed countless women, plunged numerous people into an abject poverty, and, worse of all, displaced many people and wiped out many villages from the existence.
One of the women, who pleads for her name to be withheld, told what they are going through every evening while migrating to the middle town of Funtua.
“I am mother of six children and I am spending 1 thousand every evening and sometimes, when I didn’t have money, I am trekking on my feet as well as my children to the town every evening.
We are largely sleeping in the veranda, shops, mosques and, however this cold, some are sleeping on the streets and in an uncompleted buildings” she cries.
Speaking with one of the elders in these communities, whose name Malam Haruna, has sadly narrated how government left them at mercy of those bloodthirsty kidnappers to be killing, raping, maiming and kidnapping their people unchallenged.
“No one would like to leave the comfort of his bed every evening except for the afraid of the murderous activities of these heavily armed-bandits. We are not migrating to the town at our own will rather to escape from attacks of those merciless killers.
We had seen previously, at a time like this during harvest season, how they had killed, kidnapped, raped and maimed our people that’s why we fled our villages solely to save our single souls. We don’t want the reoccurrence of such tragic moments that’s why we are running to the town every evening.” He says.
However, our vigilantes have been effortlessly trying to safeguard the lifes and properties of their people, but this time, during harvest season, they are coming with multiple bikes, carrying three persons on each bike. They have overpowered our vigilante corps” he adds.
