MAN KILLED BY BANDITS FOR TURNING DOWN DAUGHTER’S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL

Babatunji Wusu –

In the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, a father was assassinated by gunmen who were thought to be infamous bandits after he refused to marry his daughter to one of their colleagues in Kwalfada village.

One of the bandits reportedly proposed marriage to a village girl, but the girl’s father flatly turned down the offer, according to Usman Magaji, a local resident.

According to Magaji, the girl’s father rejected the bandit’s proposal and chose to wed her to another villager.

The girl’s father was slaughtered by the bandits who broke into the village as soon as the marriage contract was signed.

Additionally, the terrorists insisted that the recentlywed husband immediately file for divorce from his wife so that their colleague may wed her.

“If the husband disobeyed the order, they threatened to murder him.

He claimed, “The wife was immediately divorced by the husband and remarried to the bandit who brought her to the forest.”

Magaji claimed that because there was no security provided for the community’s people, the bandits had been terrorizing the area for a considerable amount of time.

He claims that the bandits have been levying taxes on the locals and mentions that a few weeks prior, the villagers paid N4 million.

“In order to raise the necessary funds, we had to sell our food items and other valuables,” he stated.

As of the time the article was filed, Yazid Abdulahi, the spokesperson for the State police command, had not yet commented on the matter.