Katsina orphaned girl flees village over notorious bandit’s marriage threat [Video]

An 18-year-old orphaned miss has reportedly fled her assemblage successful Dan Marke, Dan Musa Local Government Area of Katsina State, aft her guardians allegedly accepted a matrimony connection from a notorious bandit person who threatened to pain down the full colony if his request was rejected.

The girl, identified arsenic Amina Sulaiman, disclosed successful a video interrogation successful Hausa, published connected Friday by the Civilian Joint Task Force bureau successful Funtua, Katsina State.

In the interview, Amina said she had repeatedly rejected the matrimony proposal, insisting that she would alternatively dice than wed the equipped criminal.

"I told them I could not wed him and had antecedently told him that I did not emotion him. During 1 of those encounters, helium struck maine connected the shoulder, and since then, I person been incapable to assistance dense objects with that arm," she said.

Amina alleged that her guardians were acrophobic to face the bandit person and pass him straight that she did not privation to wed him due to the fact that they feared his reaction.

She further claimed that, contempt knowing the information she faced, her guardians sent her backmost to pass her rejection to the equipped transgression personally.

"They told maine to spell and archer him myself, adjacent though they knew helium could termination me. That was wherefore I near and came here. I would alternatively dice than wed him," she said.

When asked whether she wanted to instrumentality to her village, Amina rejected the suggestion, saying she preferred to stay unsocial alternatively than beryllium forced into marr...