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Bachelors in Nigerian City Run Away to Avoid Being "Hunted"
Auwalu Sani, 40, alias Nalako, roams the streets of this commercial city at night with his noose, 'arresting' unlucky bachelors and parading them round the city amidst singing and drumming to encourage them to take wives.
Nalako caught 14 bachelors last year, one on each day.
Dressed in an amulet-dotted animal skin slung over a sleeveless hand-woven shirt, a matching cap perched on his head, and with a band of drummers and enthusiasts accompanying him, Nalako goes on the prowl for bachelors with a thick raffia noose.
"There is no escape once I place this noose on my prey", the dark, soft-spoken Nalako explained to AFP this week in a small alley in Jakara neighbourhood in the old part of the city where he had gone with his band to stalk his game.
"The noose has a special effect as any bachelor I hang it on will marry before the next Ramadan", Nalako said.
But 27 year-old Jakara resident, Hassan Hawa, wants to avoid the noose like a deadly snake.
"I?m working on getting married before next Ramadan. You never can tell, it could be my turn and I can't withstand this public ridicule", said Hawa, an artefacts trader.
The crowd of young men and children sang and danced to the thrilling beat from the band which worked on its musical instruments comprising of a gong, timpani, metal gallon with frenzy outside the house of the hapless bachelor where he was holed up.
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