Bandits turn house owners to slaves
....women to sex slaves, cooks AN elder and community leader in Katsina State, Dr Bashir Kurfi, has said bandits and terrorists have taken over people’s homes in President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, turning homeowners into slaves. A Twitter post by Bulama Bukarti, yesterday, quoted Kurfi as telling BBC Hausa in an interview that gangs have occupied people’s homes in many Katsina villages, where they force the owners to live in makeshifts and work on farms. He added that the bandits also forced homeowners to produce food for the terrorists and raped women and girls. Kurfi cited an incident in which 40 bandits gang-raped nine women for a whole night. The elder statesman said he took the victims to the Federal Medical Centre. “When doctors at the FMC checked the victims, they advised that they should be taken to a Urology Hospital (which treats urinary-tract system) because the damage done was beyond the capacity of FMC,” he added Burkati tweets: “In Buhari home Katsina, bandits have ...