Female children are becoming more and more vulnerable to sex slavery,abduction,rapes and all kinds of atrocities from bad people in many societies.I think leaders the world over should take a closer look at this trend and give a new,genuine and forceful attention to it.They should make policies that will protect the rights and lives of the female population.
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105 Students of College of Education (Technical)
Gusau, Zamfara State, Tuesday night at Bida, Niger State escaped being
abducted by gunmen in police uniform.
The armed robbers, hi- jacked the two buses conveying the students on excursion to Kanji dam in Niger State.
Three of the students were brutally raped by the bandits while many
of them, including their teachers sustained varying degree of
injuries. The students were on educational excursion to Kainji Dam when
they were accosted by the hoodlums at about 1am.
The students were riding in two buses on an educational excursion
from Gusau to the Kainji Dam and accompanied by four staff of the
institution. There was no security escort with them when they suddenly
ran into a gang of armed men in police uniform at about 1.am.
Daily Sun gathered that, on their way, about 13 kilometers
to Bida in Niger State, close to Iyaso Farm, the bandits abruptly forced
one of the buses conveying 33 of the female students to a halt and
robbed them of their belongings, before raping some of them.
It was learnt that most of the students sustained varying degrees of
injuries during the attack, especially, three of the victims who were
among the raped victims.
The injured, according to sources, were taken to the Sanda Ndayako
Hospital in Bida for treatment. Complaint on the incident was lodged at
the Lemu police station at about 12.pm on the same day, by one Ibrahim
Salisu Bida, one of the staff of the institution who accompanied the
students on the ill-fated journey.
Daily Sun further gathered that the staff and students
aborted the trip and returned to Gusau after those who sustained
injuries were treated and discharged. A witness, who told our
correspondent that most of the students were raped after being
dispossessed of their valuables, however, expressed gratitude to God
that the bandits did not opt to abduct their victims for whatever
purpose.
Confirming the incident, the State police command said information at
its disposal indicated that only three girls were raped by the bandits.
Spokesman for the command, ASP Bala Elkana, however, described as un-
fortunate, the decision of authorities of the institution to permit the
students on a night trip without providing adequate police protection.
“It is very unfortunate that 105 female students would be allowed to
embark on a night journey without police escort; it is unthinkable,
considering the present security challenges facing the nation. The
incident happened at about 1.am, but we thank God that all the girls are
back to their school.
“They had left before we got there; when we arrived the scene, what
we saw were wooden guns used by the bandits to intimidate their victims
to submission before robbing them of their valuables. Reports at our
disposal indicated that three of the girls were raped. However, we are
presently combing the bushes in the surrounding villages to see if we
can arrest the perpetrators,” Elkana told Daily Sun yesterday on telephone.
Credit:Sunnews.
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