Kidnapped Nigerian Fulani Says Terrorists Are Chadian Cousins, Wishing He Could Change Tribe
“I am Fulani. We don’t kidn@p people because we have businesses that we survive on. We don’t pray to be kidn@pping fellow human beings to make a living.
All those kidn@ppers may be Fulani, but they are not Nigerian Fulani. They are Fulani from Chad. When they came and kidn@pped… pic.twitter.com/4Bvyb4pC6X
— Elelu Ayoola (@EleluAyoola) June 4, 2026
“I am Fulani. We don’t kidnap people because we have businesses that we survive on. We don’t pray to be kidnapping fellow human beings to make a living.
All those kidnappers may be Fulani, but they are not Nigerian Fulani. They are Fulani from Chad. When they came and kidnapped us, we saw about six of them, there was no Nigerian Fulani. But, someone was giving them information. The person was speaking Hausa on the phone and seemed to be their boss because, as we were moving, he was the one instructing and communicating with them.
They also kidnapped some Chinese people on the way. After the Chinese paid, we also paid before they released us. I think they later went to Abeokuta.
So all these things that are happening, people keep mentioning Fulani, are just sp0iling our name. I swear to God, most Nigerian Fulani do not like tr0uble. If they say our cattle entered someone’s farm and ate their crops, I will not deny that. But Nigerian Fulani carrying guns and kidnapping people that is not us.
Even in Nigeria, we have about five different types of Fulani. Those who kidnapped us were speaking Fulani, but if we did not understand the language well, we would not have understood what they were saying because their dialect is a bit different from ours.
While we were with them, they called their families back home. They call via WhatsApp calls, not normal phone calls. Some of them were asking about their properties at home. They even told their families that the animals they took to market had not yet been sold and that they would return once they sold them. We were the ones they were referring to as the animals.
When our families came to pay the ransom, they removed ₦2,000 from my money and gave it to me. They also removed ₦2,000 from the money of the others and gave it to them as well. They said in case we had done any charm on the money, that now it both of us that spend the money.
We bought milk, malt, cigarettes, and other things before they finally released us.
Sincerely, if it were possible for us to change our tribe from Fulani, we would have done so because we are tired. Everywhere we go, once people see that we are Fulani, they call us bandits…”
