Terrorist group in the Northwestern region of Nigeria, have threatened to kidnap the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari.
The terrorists made the threatening statement in a recent video, where they were shown whipping several of their hostages.
This threat comes only a few weeks after armed bandits attacked President Buhari’s convoy in Katsina State.
In a recent viral video, the daring terrorists who recently raided the Kuje prison facility in Abuja, and liberated several prisoners at the Correctional Center were seen threatening the country’s president and Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
The terrorists, who seized more than 60 passengers of the train traveling from Abuja to Kaduna on March 28, are allegedly threatened to kill those still held hostage and boasted about destroying the country.
One of the terrorists threatened to turn the region into a slaughterhouse in the viral video if the authorities didn’t give in to their demands.
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In the widely shared video, one of the terrorists threatened to turn the region into a slaughterhouse if the authorities didn’t give in to their demands.
“This is our message to the government of Nigeria and just as you have seen these people here, by God’s grace, you will see your leaders; your senators and governors will come before us.
“These ones you are seeing here, we will keep some as our slaves and sell them off just as our Imam told you in the past,” he said.
“Just like the Chibok girls that were sold off, we will equally sell these ones as slaves.
“If you don’t adhere to our demands, we will kill the ones we need to kill and sell the remaining. By God’s grace, El-Rufai, Buhari, we will bring you here,” one of the terrorists further said in Hausa language.
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