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The BBC asked the Nigerian military for comment on the killing but received no response. “It pains me how much my boy suffered…I am devastated.” “I remember how he raised his head to look at me while he was in that condition,” the boy’s father told the BBC. Multiple eyewitnesses told the BBC that the boy was killed by Nigerian security forces. The documentary also records the chaotic release of the girls back to their families in early March, and includes distressing scenes of a teenage boy-the brother of one of the kidnapped girls-dying after he was shot in the stomach. The reply comes back immediately: “We bought more rifles.” “What did you do with the money?” asks Mr Anka. He claims on camera that the bandits were paid a ransom of 60 million Naira from the Nigerian government for the release of the girls. The bandits behind the abduction have never been caught and have never previously spoken to the media, but the BBC team tracked down one of the men who led the attack on the school. The film’s most dramatic revelations concern the abduction of the nearly 300 girls who were seized by bandits from a government-run highschool in Jangebe in February 2021. It makes clear that, despite the bravery of the security forces, the Nigerian state is failing to provide basic security to many of its citizens, reveals just how lucrative the kidnap-for-ransom business has become, and warns the country that this crisis now contains elements of an ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani.

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In a series of shocking encounters with both victims and perpetrators, the film lays bare the full horror of the violence that has taken hold across the north west. The result of Mr Anka’s journeys is this deeply disturbing documentary from BBC Africa Eye.

At huge personal risk, a young Nigerian journalist and law student, Yusuf Anka, visited bandit leaders in remote encampments across the state-including one of the men who, in February 2021, abducted nearly 300 girls from a high school in Jangebe. In an attempt to find answers, BBC Africa Eye has spent more than two years tracking down and speaking to some of the most notorious bandit warlords in Zamfara. Massacres and mass abductions make headlines, but the lack of on-the-ground reporting has left basic questions unanswered: Who are these bandits? What do they want? How and why did this violence take hold? But despite the scale of the suffering, the crisis remains poorly understood-in part because it is so dangerous for journalists to travel in rural areas. Thousands of people have been killed in this conflict across the north west, and close to a million more are now displaced from their homes. Even children are not safe: hundreds of kids have been abducted from boarding schools across the state and held captive-again, for ransom-at bandit hideouts deep in the forests.

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They appear on the roads without warning, shooting drivers and dragging terrified passengers from their cars to be ransomed or shot. Gangs of young men ride into villages on motorbikes, armed with Kalshnikovs and machetes, to burn, rape, steal, and kill.

Over the last decade, Zamfara State, in north western Nigeria, has been engulfed by violence.