A member of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Eruku in Kwara state, has recounted how they were taken into a forested zone controlled by the terrorists.

Naijaonpoint recalls that the 38 worshippers abducted during evening service on November 18 were released on Sunday.

In an interview with TVC, the victim said the bandits who surrounded the entire church building struck shortly after the programme commenced.

He said, “It was a sudden act, a terrifying act. Because that evening, after 30 minutes of the programme, we just heard gunshots. Even to my own perspective, I didn’t know it was gunshots. I thought it was just sparking of some wire.

“By the time we got up, they surrounded the whole church. Even some people there began to narrate that they were seeing drops of blood everywhere.”

The survivor also narrated that the abductors openly identified as bandits and boasted about their stronghold in the region, stressing that nobody can escape without being caught.

He added, “It was unimaginable because when we got there, we didn’t know that it was a dominated area.

“They made us know that there is no one who can slip away without being caught. And with what we saw, nobody can escape.

“From that place, they have dominated. They knew all the routes surrounding all those bushes within Kwara and other cities. They knew it.”