Two of the victims, who narrated
their ordeal to Vanguard in Makurdi, the state capital, said after
beating and raping them, the herdsmen also made away with their N60,000 and two
phones.
According to the women, who could
barely walk, “one of us (the teenage girl) was raped repeatedly, after being
thoroughly beaten by the herdsmen. At the moment, she is neither able to walk
nor talk.”
Before they were taken to an
undisclosed hospital in Makurdi for medical attention by the Police, the women,
who spoke at intervals, said: “The men with their leader came to our home in
the afternoon and pleaded that we give them water to drink.
“We obliged them, but they noticed
the absence of our husbands, and when their leader asked of our husband’s
whereabouts, we innocently told him that they travelled but would be back much
later.
“After drinking the water, they
left, only for about nine of them to come back later in the day, armed with
guns and machetes and asked us to lie down and have sex with them or they will
kill everybody.”
The women who wept profusely,
explained that four of the armed herdsmen fired shots in the air to terrify and
also compel them to submit to their demands.
She said: “After defiling us, they
beat us mercilessly and collected over N60,000 from us and also took away our
handsets.”
The women said that the leader of
the gang was well known in the community but he fled from the area with his
family and cattle shortly after the incident.
Vanguard gathered from a Police source that one of the suspects had
been arrested while the hunt for the leader of the gang and seven others had
begun.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, Superintendent (SP) Daniel Ezeala, who confirmed the incident,
said investigations into the matter had commenced.
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