A Nigerian doctor, Iye Abel, has shared her harrowing experience working in a health facility in a bandit-ravaged Zamfara community during her mandatory housemanship.
In a Facebook post on Monday, November 3, 2025, Iye described the atrocities perpetuated on villagers by bandits as ‘unhindered wickedness’, adding that soldiers were not left out as they often sustain serious injuries while protecting the communities.
Iye recalled having to suture different kinds of bullet wounds in injured victims’ private parts.
According to the doctor, the medical officers in the surgery department resorted to alcohol as a coping mechanism.
She recalled the case of a 6-month pregnant woman who was r@ped by bandits and her husband k!lled in her presence.
Dr. Iye criticised the government for turning a blind eye to the mass k!llings that have been happening in the country for years.
She further berated people who sit in the safety of their homes to drop uninformed opinions following President Donald Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern and invasion threat.
“I worked in a tertiary health facility in Zamfara during my compulsory housemanship. That area was ravaged by armed bandits and kidnappers at the time. For every call duty, we had no less than ten new casualties, some brought in dead—men, women, and children,” she wrote.
These bandits terrorized villages and killed people without mercy. I sutured different kinds of bul:let wou—nds that period, people sho.t in their genitals, legs, anus—you name it! My nostrils were literally fed up with the sme.ll of innocent blo..od.
There were days I got emotional on the job, as I could not stand the depth of unhindered wickedness that was perpetuated in the land.
Most of the medical officers in surgery department took lots of alcohol. I guess it was their own way of calming their nerves and zoning out of the realities at work.
