Nigerian troops sent to keep peace in the country's troubled northern city of Jos have been accused of carrying out rape and killing of women, but the military has dismissed the allegations.
Dr Funmi Para-Mallam, the coordinator of Plateau States chapter of Christian Women for Excellence and Empowerment in Nigerian Society (CWEENS), said young vulnerable women were being sexually exploited by the soldiers of the Military Special Task Force (STF).
"They use them as prostitutes in the slum areas of Jos city, where several girls have been made pregnant and abandoned and some even killed, without the perpetrators being apprehended or prosecuted," she alleged.