For failure to meet up deadline for the payment of the N2m levy imposed on some villages in Shiroro local government area of Niger State by terrorists before harvesting their farm produce, residents of the communities have fled their residences, just as a pregnant woman was gang-raped to death while fleeing the area.
Her three children were also unlucky, as they were marched into the bush along with several other villagers abducted by the terrorists.
The incident occurred in Dnakundna village, in Shiroro local government area of the State on Thursday.
It was gathered that the deadline given to members of the communities, who are predominantly farmers, to raise the sum of N2 million before they could commence harvesting their farm produce expired on Thursday. All steps taken by the villagers to raise the amount failed, and therefore they resorted to fleeing their ancestral homes to avoid being attacked by the terrorists.
Unknown to the villagers, some informants within the villages had informed the terrorists that the villagers were planning to flee the area and decided to lay an ambush for them. The deceased pregnant woman and mother of three was not lucky however, as she and her three children ran into the ambush and were led into the bush with her children, gang-raped by seven of the bandits and abandoned.
After a frantic search by the villagers, she was found in the bush with bruises on her private part and other parts of her body, and was rushed to the hospital where she eventually gave up the ghost on Friday night. After a successful farming period, the terrorists continued to move from village to village to impose a levy on the farmers of huge sums of money as a condition to allow them access to their farms to harvest their farm produce.
