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Tension As Boko Haram Force Residents To Marry Off Daughters At 12 Years In Niger

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October 4, 2021
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Boko Haram insurgents are coercing residents of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State to marry off their daughters at the age of 12 years.

Residents of affected communities said the insurgents have ordered them not to recognise any constituted authority.

Daily Trust reports a resident of the area, and Co-Convener of Concerned Shiroro Youths, Bello Ibrahim, told our correspondent that, “At a time, they were in Kawure, the village of former Senator Representing Niger East, David Umaru.

“But there was an operation to dislodge them by the joint military task force.

“Fortunately they were dispatched but after a while, since the military base is not stationed there, they reconvened.

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“So now, they are not only in Kawure, but they have also extended their tentacles to Communities like Kuregbe, Awulo, and host of other Communities.

“In Awulo and Kuregbe Communities, they assembled the locals, both Muslims and Christians, and gave them marching orders that any girl that is 12 years old should be married off.

“There is no any form of law in the area, aside from Boko Haram’s… If locals have any feud, either a Family issue or a community problem, they report to them for resolution.

“No case should be reported to police or court or any constituted authority for resolution.”

Another resident said the criminals operate freely.

He noted, “They are operating freely and mingling freely with the villagers.

“They have become the constituted authority in those villages. And Kaure, Awulo and Kuregbe are their operational grounds. They coerce locals to obey them as their authority.

“In the entire Chukuba and Kuregbe ward, it is Boko Haram elements that are operating there not bandits that we know.”

The Chairman, Shiroro Local Government, Suleiman Chukuba confirmed the influx of Boko Haram elements, saying “On the issue of influx of Boko Haram in shiroro, only four wards have been affected.”

He said the residents were made to believe that they were Boko Haram elements because of their mode of preaching.

“They told villagers that they have money to help them and that they have guns to give them to fight Government. And that is the same doctrine we know Boko Haram elements promote,” he said.

But residents said they had not recruited the locals aside from coercing them to do especially the issue of not reporting any case or feud to police or court and the marital age for girls.

Meanwhile, REPORTERS AT LARGE recently reported, according to the information got from military sources by Agence France Presse (AFP) recently that a large group of Boko Haram terrorists have moved out of their base in North-East Nigeria to join forces with criminal gangs and bandits in the North-West where they are engaged in weapons training and kidnapping.

Boko Haram’s Islamic State-allied rivals have been consolidating their grip on the North-East after the reported death of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, this year, in a major shift in Nigeria’s 12-year insurgency.

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