Some of the victims who were kidnapped in different parts of Zamfara State resorted to eating grasses to survive when their captors left them with no food. One of the victims, who gave her name as Iklima Murtala, claimed that 17 persons died as a result of starvation. Receiving the victims on behalf of the government, the secretary to the state government, Alhaji Kabiru Balarabe, said, “The state government will continue to put pressure on the bandits until they finally give up.” The commissioner of police in the state, Ayuba Elkana, had noted that due to pressure and lack of