{"id":63777,"date":"2025-04-04T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63777"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:31:33","slug":"hyenas-surrounded-us-before-rescue-ex-nysc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/04\/hyenas-surrounded-us-before-rescue-ex-nysc-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyenas Surrounded Us Before Rescue \u2013 Ex NYSC Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Maharazu Tsiga, has shared chilling details of his 56-day ordeal in captivity, revealing how hyenas nearly mauled him and fellow hostages just a day before their release.<\/p>\n<p>Tsiga was abducted on February 5 from his hometown in Tisga, Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>He was freed on Wednesday alongside 18 others, all of whom were handed over to their families in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA day before I left, we looked around and saw hyenas circling us on the mountain,\u201d Tsiga said. \u201cThey were clearly hunting for food \u2013 us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former NYSC boss also spoke of surviving snake and scorpion attacks, enduring beatings, and eating only once a week \u2013 mostly Tuwo Dawa made with salt, a serious risk to his health as a hypertensive.<\/p>\n<p>He described how kidnappers used him and other high-profile victims as human shields during aerial bombardments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey brought us out during air strikes so the aircraft would hesitate. A rocket was once hidden where I slept, hoping I would trigger it. But God is merciful,\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n<p>Tsiga also revealed that the kidnappers, convinced that uniformed government officials had access to money, blew open his home with explosives in search of cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people don\u2019t fear God. They warn you not to call on God. But when they hear aircraft, they scatter \u2013 even their cows run,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He called for stronger citizen cooperation with security agencies, noting that intelligence is key to stopping such crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop thinking security is the government\u2019s job alone. It is our collective responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another rescued victim, Ambassador Gideon Yohana, praised the Office of the National Security Adviser and the military for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not forgotten,\u201d he said. \u201cOur release shows that the security forces are working hard behind the scenes to restore peace across Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Maharazu Tsiga, has shared chilling details of his 56-day ordeal in captivity, revealing how hyenas nearly mauled him and fellow hostages just a day before their release. Tsiga was abducted on February 5 from his hometown in Tisga, Bakori Local Government Area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63779,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63777\/revisions\/63779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}