Armed bandits were seen in a video on Wednesday, openly throwing banters with an expatriate road construction engineer.
The location, names of the bandits or the identity of the white man could not yet be verified but Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency expert, identified the spot as Gusau – Sokoto road.
“Dreaded bandit kingpin Mai-Jakka is shown cracking jokes freely with one of the construction company’s engineers handling Gusau – Sokoto road,” he tweeted.
The gang repeatedly said, “Hasbunallahu wa ni’mal Wakeel’, meaning, “Sufficient for us is Allah, and (He is) the best Disposer of affairs.”
One of the bandits in dreadlocks, who seemed to be the leader of the gang with a rifle hanging from his right arm, was seen joking and holding the white man from behind.
One of them said, “Here is a white man in the flesh,” as the white man jokingly urged the deadlocked gang leader to hold him well.
“Allahu Akbar! The deadlocked man was not killed. It’s a fat lie. He was not killed.”