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Sheikh Gumi shares video from Sudan to depict bandit reinforcement in Nigeria

Nurudeen Akewushola
Nurudeen Akewushola
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Sheikh Ahmed Gumi/ Source : BBC

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POPULAR Nigerian Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, has posted a video showing a helicopter descending in a bush with a claim that it shows bandits receiving support in Nigeria. 

He posted the claim with a caption :

“The truth has come out!

(The slogan: let them kill themselves)

Here are the bandits enforcing their support. They are not politicians, they are people of Ketare. We are fools, we are just wasting away our brothers’ blood, and we are burning the fire of war. The solution to this is to save the people being used; we show them brotherhood through reconciliation, not war.”

The post has generated over 5000 likes and more than 2000 shares on Facebook as of September 12, 2025.

READ : Did Zamfara Government allocate over N1 billion to bandits, media houses?

CLAIM

Video does not show bandit reinforcement in Nigeria.

screenshot of the viral post

FINDINGS

Findings by The FactCheckHub show that the claim is MISLEADING.

For over a decade, bandits have terrorised many states in northwestern Nigeria, sacking villages, sexually assaulting women, imposing levies on communities, killing locals, and running a multi-million-dollar kidnap-for-ransom enterprise to sustain their operations.

Since their activities escalated in 2010, more than 13,000 people have been killed. The crisis has also displaced over 600,000 people across Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, etc.

READ ALSO : Video does not show recent army mobilization against Turji-led bandits in Sokoto

The FactCheckHub subjected the keyframes in the viral video to Google Reverse Image search, and the result shows that the video emanates from Sudan.

Several Sudanese pages, such as here and here, had posted the video with the Arabic caption, which reads: “شاهد منهم ينزلون من هليكوبتر في دارفور” and translates to: “Watch them getting off a helicopter in Darfur.”

Darfur is a large region in western Sudan, in northeast Africa.

The region has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023. The RSF controls much of the region, while El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, remains under siege as one of the last major SAF strongholds.

Fighting has devastated civilian areas, with displacement camps, markets, and hospitals repeatedly shelled or bombed. Massacres, sexual violence, and ethnically motivated attacks by RSF and allied militias have been widely reported, raising alarms about possible war crimes.

VERDICT

The claim that the video shows the security situation in Nigeria is MISLEADING. Findings showed that the video emanated from Sudan.

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Nurudeen Akewushola is a fact-checker with FactCheckHub. He has authored several fact checks which have contributed to the fight against information disorder. You can reach him via nyahaya@icirnigeria.org and @NurudeenAkewus1 via Twitter.

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