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Soaked in pain, Sola managed to mumble a few words while struggling to muffle tears forming in her eyes as she narrated her experience at the hands of killer herders who raped her.
Eighteen-year-old Sola recalled how she was deflowered on her parents’ farm in the presence of her siblings.
She said, “My siblings and I went to work on the farm that day. It was harvest season and we decided to assist our parents. Around 4 pm, when we were completing the day’s work, a Fulani herder came to us to beg for water.”