By Owei Lakemfa
Four female students of the Zamfara State College of Arts and Science, abducted by bandits six months ago, may know their fate this week. Their abductors have given the parents of the young ladies, one week within which to pay N12 million ransom or the victims will be married off. This may be an euphemism for selling the young women into sexual slavery.
What to do about these soulless
bandits who maim, rape, murder, loot and visit arson on many states, especially
Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina and Niger, is no straight forward matter.
There are vested interests. For instance, with the new service chiefs vowing to destroy these bandits who in the last eight years have murdered about 65, 000 Nigerians, there are urgent petitions and campaigns that the might of the military should not be used against them.
