Izuchukwu Ozurumba was held at a remote camp outside Lagos for six months under armed guard and forced to cook for leaders of the Unknown Gunmen, a Nigerian separatist group, working without pay for three months

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An immigration judge concluded that cooking three meals a day for the Unknown Gunmen, a Nigerian separatist group, satisfied basic human needs and constituted material support regardless of whether Izuchukwu Ozurumba acted under duress

In September 2025, a divided panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Izuchukwu Ozurumba, holding forced captive labor cooking provided nothing the Unknown Gunmen, a separatist group, could divert to carry out terrorist activities

In 2022, Nigerian citizen Izuchukwu Ozurumba accepted a cooking job at a remote camp outside Lagos that he subsequently learned was operated by a separatist group called the Unknown Gunmen

Izuchukwu Ozurumba escaped the Unknown Gunmen's camp during an outing for supplies and returned to Lagos, where members of the Unknown Gunmen harassed and beat him with sticks and knives following a church service

While at a remote camp outside Lagos run by the Unknown Gunmen, Izuchukwu Ozurumba observed that the movements of camp members coincided with news reports of murder and arson