Farmers in some parts of Northern Nigeria must pay taxes to bandits before they are allowed to farm on their farmlands or harvest their crops.
Farmers in some parts of Northern Nigeria must pay taxes to bandits before they are allowed to farm on their farmlands or harvest their crops. Farmers in a particular community in Zamfara State pay the sum of N900,000 to bandits, so as to farm in their lands without being kidnapped or experience any disturbance by armed bandits, BBC Hausa reports.
Despite the fact that the farmers were forced to pay bandits to allow them access to their farms at the beginning of the planting season, they are forced to do the same at harvest time.
Northern youths have taken to Twitter to complain about this development and at the same time, explaining that this is one of the reasons for the recent hike in the price of foodstuff.
