Kidnap victim recounts ordeal after abduction in Ekiti
A Nigerian man has shared a disturbing account of how he was abducted by armed kidnappers while working as a farm manager in Ekiti State in October 2025.
Speaking about the incident on Honest Bunch podcast, he said the attackers stormed the location suddenly and shot one of the victims shortly after arriving. The experience left him terrified, believing he might not survive the ordeal.
According to him, the kidnappers demanded that he contact his family and ask them to raise ₦55 million for his release, warning that failure to pay would cost him his life.
He also revealed that he and a few other captives were forced by the kidnappers to move the body of a victim who had been shot during the attack.
While in captivity, the man said the kidnappers later brought in dozens of additional victims who had reportedly been abducted from a church gathering. He explained that the group consisted of men, women and children, many of whom were taken during a violent raid on a church service.
The victims, he said, remained in the kidnappers’ camp for several days before they were eventually released.
According to the survivor, one of the kidnappers’ aides later claimed that the ransom for the group was paid by authorities from Kwara State, though the claim has not been independently verified.
“I was k!dn@pped in October 2025 in Ekiti state where I was working as a farm manager. Immediately the band!ts burst in they sh0*t the guy twice, one in the st0mach and one at the ch£st. I thought it was a joke. Immediately I started ur!nating on my body, say Omo so this is the way I’m going to die as well. I kept shivering. They now told me, you you go call your mama now say your money remain N55 million. Say if you no bring am you self go die for bush. They then told me and three other boys that we should dispose his b**0dy in the nearest bush there. We took his d£@d body while he was v0m!ting blu*d through his mouth.
We didn’t even know that they were the same people who operated at that viral CAC church. That evening they brought all those people. Old women, young child, male, female. They were 38 in number. So one of the ladies were explaining to me that they were just at church oo. This evening they were at church when they started hearing sh0ts and they took them.
They spent up to 5 days at the den before they were released. So there was a guy with us, one Fulani boy that is their errand boy, so the guy is friendly to us a bit. It was the guy that revealed to us that it was Kwara state government that paid their ransom. That they paid 350 million for the 38 people…,” he partly said.
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Man narrates how he was k!dn@pp£d on honest bunch podcast…. This is very very s@d man😥!!! Everyone needs to hear this💔💔💔 pic.twitter.com/END59w5v1b
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