Many residents of Zamfara State's Dansadau emirate have complained that robbers had taken over their fields, preventing them from accessing their farms.
Some villagers who spoke with DAILY POST over the phone said they had to pay levies to the bandits to allow them to grow their farms, especially during this year's wet season.
"Some villages were forced to pay a charge of N20 million naira, and the bandits demanded unfettered access to the farms after they had been cultivated."
Before the bandits conquered the entire state, the Dansadau axis had been a bandit colony, according to the DAILY POST.
Kuyabana Forest is one of the woodlands in the Dansadau Emirate where bandits establish camps and hideouts from which they launch terror assaults on the state's unsuspecting population.
The majority of the communities have begun passionate prayers in the hope of divine intervention, while also urging the federal and Zamfara state governments to show sufficient political will to address the threat that has ravaged the axis for over a decade.
According to Mohammed Dansadau, a local farmer and inhabitant of the area, the number of homicides, kidnappings, and livestock rustling has increased in the problematic area.
Dansadau urged the government to address the tragic trend in order to spare the citizens' souls from the area's ongoing instability.
"Because the farmers can no longer engage in their farming activities due to the bandits' constant operations in the Dansadau axis, we demand the federal and state governments to take proactive efforts to allow locals to pursue their legitimate goals."
However, the state police authorities could not be reached since the state's police spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu, had his two lines disconnected after numerous efforts.