Terrorists Threaten To Marry Off Christian Women Kidnapped In Kaduna State
This week in Nigeria Report: journalist Masara Kim reports on recent mass kidnappings of Christians in Kaduna state, and fears that kidnapped women will be forced into sex slavery:
Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna State are worried 21 women kidnapped by suspected Islamist militants from the southern village of Kasan Kogi on 21 June 2022 might never return.
“They [the abductors] said they will marry off our women to their members if we don’t pay N100 million ($230,000) ransom within days,” said the Reverend Ezekiel Garba, a pastor at the Chapel of Good News Church in Kasan Kogi in a phone call.
“They said they will use them to produce children who will kill us in the future,” added Garba whose wife is among the abductees.
The villagers are predominantly peasant farmers who have been impoverished by frequent attacks and kidnappings by terrorists, said Jonathan Asake, the president of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union (SOKAPU).
“Where will they get that kind of money from?” said a worried Asake by telephone.
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