BREAKING: Over 150 Abducted Zamfara Residents Cry For Help In New Video Uploaded On TikTok By Terrorists

Over 150 abducted residents of Zamfara State have been seen in a video posted by a notorious bandits leader, Ibrahim Musa, via his TikTok handle @Ibrahim.Musa99, pleading for their lives and calling on the state government to open dialogue with their captors.

The abductees, made up of men, women, and children, were identified as residents of various communities including Cogon Daji, Danabuce, Kuliya, Bayawa, Magulu, and Gidan Garduwa in the troubled state.

Speaking in Hausa, one of the victims lamented, 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 appears to be a calculated public relations move by the terrorists, the abductee claimed that the gunmen holding them have expressed a willingness to negotiate peace but accused the government of treating them with contempt and disregard.

“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.”

In a similar situation, SaharaReporters also reported 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, a popular Point of Sale (POS) agent known as Yman, was abducted in late June 2025 along with others in separate incidents across communities in Kwara North. 

Since then, SaharaReporters gathered that his abductors have been making ransom demands and sending disturbing updates to family members through his WhatsApp account.

But in a new development that exposes both the boldness of the criminals and the glaring failure of Nigeria’s security architecture, one of the terrorists has now gained access to Yman’s TikTok account and uploaded at least seven different videos showing his face and their getaway motorcycle.

“He has been using Yman’s phone number to call us,” a family member told SaharaReporters. 

“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.

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