Three Girls RAPED to coma in Benue State

Nine Fulani herdsmen yesterday went beyond the frequent attacks on hapless communities when they were alleged to have gang-raped three women, including a teenage girl, in Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.
The women, whose ages range between 18 and 20 years, were attending to house chores in their remote settlement when the herdsmen attacked them with machete and guns and coerced the ladies into submitting to their sexual demands.

Two of the women (names withheld), while narrating their ordeal, wept profusely before the Benue State Governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam, who ordered a full investigation into the matter.

One of the women said the leader of the gang (who is at large) had come to their home earlier in the day and asked to be given water to drink.


“While we were serving him, he noticed the absence of the head of our family and other male members and asked for their whereabouts. We told him they had gone out.
“He then left and came back later with eight others with guns and asked us to lie down and submit to them or risk being shot,” she said.
They also said the herdsmen after beating and raping them also made away with the sum of N60,000 as well as two mobile phones belonging to two of them.

It was reported that one of the women, who was beaten mercilessly and gang raped by three of the herdsmen, is unable to walk or talk.
The third woman, a teenager, was beaten to a coma as she refused to submit to the Fulani rapists.

The state police commissioner confirmed the incident, even as he disclosed that one of the rapists had been arrested while the others were still at large.