One of them said, “Let us release the mother and hold the boy so that he can work for us.”

I lost my chemist shop; I lost my livestock. Before this, I was handling all my responsibilities.

We prepare our children and family very well in case of any bandit attack.

I spent five months there and we could spend four to five days without eating anything.

Any gun, machete, or iron-related weapon cannot do anything to me.

One day my Fulani colleagues came and met me with a kolanut as an invitation to gang up.

Anywhere you go now, people will start accusing you or stigmatising you as a Fulani man.

So, the only option was to keep praying for him and let them just kill him.

Bandits killed and rustled in our community, but they never tried setting our houses ablaze as Yan Sakai did.