Militants Kidnap market women,Rape and Video Victims in Akwa ibom

Some days ago, several market women were kidnapped by Niger Delta militants in
Akwa Ibom State and taken to their hideouts in the creeks.
According to Niger Delta Vigilante, NDV, the women who come from different communities in the state and neighbouring Cross River State, were on their way back from Nwaniba community market in Uruan local government when more than 10 masked men ambushed the two speedboats conveying them.
Narrating the heart-breaking event, a victim, Mrs. Christiana Sunday John, who spoke through an interpreter, said:
“We were badly treated, our womanhood was abused. I joined the second speed boat going back home when midway into our journey; another speed boat from nowhere blocked us.
“To my greatest surprise, the boat was conveying over 10 hefty masked men, two of the armed masked men jumped into our boat and ordered the boat operator to take to one of their camps in the creeks.
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“The two armed men robbed the 25 of us on board the speed boat before we got to their destination.
“At the camp, they forced us to pull-off, we were forced to pull everything to the pant and they asked at gunpoint to expose our private parts while they took several shots with their camera phones.
“Most of the women, who initially proved stubborn, went home with machete cuts. Two boats loaded with women returning from Nwaniba Market were attacked.
“After their evil operation, they removed the boat engines, living us stranded in their camp. They collected N70,000, which was all I had on me, now I do not know how to start all over again.”
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While speaking to NDV, Elder Samuel Jeo, who is the Chairman, Nwaniba Village Council, said: “the saddest thing was that mothers and wives of our men were forced to dance nude while they were being filmed”.
“This is the most embarrassing criminal operation in Nwaniba. We built that market with community effort, now militants have closed down the market.
“No customer would want to come here and risk his or her life. The market was built two years ago, now we cannot generate revenue because of the effect of militancy and pirates who are terrorizing the area on a daily basis”.
Militants and pirates, elder Joe said, were operating freely in the area. He recalled that on June 27, many persons were killed while about four villages, including Edile Ikpa, Ufak-Effiong, Akpa-Mfurukim and Akara Obio Uruan were razed.
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“Last week, we recovered the decomposed remains of Enang of Mbiakong village, killed with his machete in his cassava farm. In Nwaniba, we are living in fear, no government protection,” he cried.
Also bemoaning the unfortunate circumstance of the community was prominent Nwaniba community leader, Chief Emmanuel Ben Akpan who said their men could no longer go for fishing to fend for their families while the women could not go to the market or farm. “We are stranded,” he declared.
In his reaction, Chairman, Uruan local government, Dr. Edwin Okon, said: “We have lost countless numbers of people to these militants and we want government and other agencies, including the National Emergency Manage-ment Agency (NEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to come to the aid of the displaced people”, he said.
Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, of Akwa Ibom state, DSP Chukwu Ikechukwu, said: “Failure of the community to file the matter with the Police in the area was hampering investigation and action on the problem.”