A member of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Eruku, Kwara State, who was among the 38 abducted worshippers recently released, has shared a chilling account of the days they spent in the hands of terrorists inside a remote forest camp.
The survivor, speaking shortly after regaining freedom, said the abductors made it clear from the very beginning that escape was impossible. According to him, the forest was tightly controlled, heavily monitored, and strategically guarded, leaving captives in constant fear.
He explained that the terrorists openly boasted about their dominance of the terrain and their ability to detect movement “across the surrounding bushes,” insisting that no one could slip away unnoticed.
A total of 38 worshippers were abducted from CAC Eruku on Tuesday, November 18, and were released on Sunday, November 23, 2025, amid Nigeria’s rising kidnap crisis.
“It was unimaginable because when we got there, we really know that it was a dominated area,” the freed victim recounted. “Even they had to tell themselves that we are bandits and made us to know that there is no one that can just slip away. And with what we saw nobody could escape. They know all the routes surrounding all those bushes within Kwara and other cities.”
