Ibrahim Musa, a prominent bandit leader, tweeted a video on his TikTok account, @Ibrahim.Musa99, showing 150 kidnapped residents of Zamfara State begging for their lives and urging the state government to start a conversation with their abductors.
Among the abductees were men, women, and children who lived in different localities in the problematic state, such as Cogon Daji, Danabuce, Kuliya, Bayawa, Magulu, and Gidan Garduwa.
One of the victims, speaking in Hausa, bemoaned in the film that SaharaReporters was able to obtain the government and community leaders’ desertion of them as they endured fear and famine in the terrorists’ woodland refuge.
Speaking in Hausa, one of the victims cried out, in the video obtained by SaharaReporters, the abandonment they had suffered from both the government and their community leaders, while enduring starvation and fear in the forest hideout of the terrorists.
“We are people from Cogon Daji, Danabuce, Kuliya, Bayawa, Magulu, Gidan Garduwa and other areas in Zamfara State. We have been here for weeks. Our leaders are flying around with their families, while we are dying here of hunger,” the abductee said.
“Please, the Zamfara State Government should consider our situation and come to dialogue with our abductors. We are suffering. We are starving. And we are human beings too.”
In what seems to be a well-planned public relations ploy by the terrorists, a victim said that the gunmen who are holding them have stated that they are open to negotiating a peaceful resolution, but that the government is treating them with disdain and inequality.
“We want to tell the Zamfara State Government that what we’ve seen here is that this insecurity is mainly due to a lack of understanding between government and these gunmen,” the victim said.
“The bandits are saying the government looks down on them, like they don’t know anything or have any rights. But they are saying they’re ready for dialogue. In our camp alone, we are over 150 people. Other camps have over 200. Some are uncountable.”
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Similarly, reports also revealed how a terrorist operating in Kwara State took over the TikTok account of one of his abducted victims and is now using it to brazenly post videos from their forest hideout.
The victim, Yman, a well-known Point of Sale (POS) agent, was kidnapped in late June 2025 together with several other people in several Kwara North towns.
His kidnappers have since been using his WhatsApp account to send family members unsettling updates and demanding payment, according to information obtained by correspondents.
“He has been using Yman’s phone number to call us,” a family member revealed.
“He even used the WhatsApp line to send us a video of Yman crying and begging for help due to hunger and torture. Now, they’ve hijacked his TikTok and the kidnapper is confidently uploading videos from their hideout,” the family source added.
Watch the video here: https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/2025-07/VID-20250729-WA0004.mp4
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