Nigeria, July 9 -- A man who escaped from kidnappers in Niger State, Aliyu Alaramma, has narrated his ordeal in the forest amid a turf war between armed bandits and the Lakurawa terrorist group.

Mr Alaramma, a resident of Kawon Kontagora, a village in the Kontagora Local Government Area of Niger State, was abducted alongside his elder brother on their farm recently.

He escaped five days after his kidnap.

Speaking in an interview with Gaskiya News Hausa, monitored by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Alaramma recounted the severe torture he and other captives endured.

He narrated how he tried to escape into the volatile Kulho forest in the Mashegu Local Government Area.

Kulho is a remote, densely forested region near the Kainji Forest Reserve and Zug...