00:01Newly released hostages in Nigeria spoke to the media on Friday, describing their ordeal during months of captivity.
00:10Those freed include 163 people taken in Kwara State in February and 145 others, most of them captured in neighbouring
00:20Niger State.
00:22They keep us inside the river. The place that we live is inside the river.
00:28And planes already used to come, sometimes.
00:32All the planes that is coming, they will ask us to, even though we set fire, they will ask us
00:37to off the fire.
00:40Their plane will not see us again. We just want to keep one side and be silent.
00:44Sometimes they will give up food, sometimes they will not give up.
00:47That's how we used to sleep with our children.
00:49And we have sick people over there, again, pregnant, someone that they deliver.
00:55They ask us, if not, if we thought, I say no.
00:58Because I was, I'm also a nurse.
01:02I just used to help pregnant women doing delivery.
01:07I have like 10 women for delivery without glove.
01:10I use my hand to help them.
01:12Mass abductions and kidnappings for ransom are still a major security problem in Nigeria, particularly in the northwest.
01:22This is indeed a very sad situation.
01:26We've not yet come to terms with it.
01:29We're still assessing the situation.
01:31As you can see, it's just kids, children and women that are here today.
01:37Some of them, we have about 46 of them in the hospital.
01:41And it's truly a shame that this has happened.
01:47And government will continue to do its best to safeguard the life and property of the citizens within the state.
01:56President Tenubu has credited the rescue of more than 300 people to improved coordination among Nigeria's security agencies.
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