Nigeria in recent years has seen an uptick in deadly clashes between extremists from nomadic Fulani communities and locals, including in the country's southeast where separatists fuel calls for secession with incendiary claims. A recent Facebook post purports to show photos of “two Fulani terrorist kidnappers” and weapons seized from them. But the claim is false: one of the images is of two men attacked in Kenyan gang violence this year, the other of weapons seized in Kenya in 2021.

“Two Fulani Terrorists Kidnappers Trying To Smuggle Ammunitions Into Enugwu State For Possible Kidnappings And Killing Of Biafrans Has Been Captured By BVD Men On Ground Tonight 21st November 2022 (sic),” reads the Facebook post published on November 21, 2022.

It features two photos: one shows two men with bloodied heads sitting on the ground and the other a cache of weapons, including bullets and AK 47 rifles.

The post, shared more than 195 times, was published by an account backing the secessionist movement and has been the subject of a debunk by AFP Fact Check.

Biafran Vigilante Drillers (BVD), credited with the purported arrest, is a militant group agitating for independence in southeastern Nigeria. The region has five states including “Enugwu” (officially spelt Enugu) where the “terrorists” were captured.

Several accounts affiliated with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) — another pro-secessionist militant group — shared the same pictures with similar messaging here, here and here.

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