Bandits convert abandoned classrooms to hideout in Zamfara remote villages

The bizarre is happening in remote villages in Zamfara, North West Nigeria as bandits are converting abandoned classrooms to hideout in the ongoing shelling of forests by the Nigerian troops.

Bandits terrorism and frequent abductions have forced school pupils out of sch leaving the school empty, CAPITAL POST learnt.

Some of the hard-to-reach villages have been living at the mercy of bandits who invaded their villages at will with little or no security presence.

In Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara, some bandits have few days ago approached the headteacher of one of the primary to close lesson on time, saying that they want to sleep in the school.

The headteacher without wasting time, hurriedly thanked them, close the school and dismissed the pupils knowing that disobeying them would be catastrophic.

But the ongoing aerial bombardment is forcing bandits to relocate to empty classrooms across the States in Northwest, yet getting razed down from air with scores being killed.