Who will take care of my two little children: Survivors recount their terrible experience after Maiduguri attack

by Oke Efagene

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Residents and survivors of the Monday attack in Maiduguri, yesterday, spoke about their frightening experience and narrow escape from death.

In the early hours of Monday, December 2, about 300 members of the Boko Haram sect armed with sophisticated weapons invaded Maiduguri, Borno State capital, targeting military formations and police stations.

Eyewitnesses claim that the attacks were coordinated and led by 2 women commanders, leading to the death of several people.

Vanguard reports:

Narrating his ordeal, Mallam Yakubu Gashua, who resides few metres away from the destroyed 79 Composite Group, Nigerian Air force Base, NAF, said: “I thought my days on earth was over on that day.

“My wife and I were in bed and all of a sudden, I started hearing heavy sounds of gunshots, as if it was in my compound. We immediately woke up and started reciting some protective verses in the Quran. The gunshots became more intense with ceaseless explosions all over the place.

“At a point I told my wife and my uncle, who came from Gashua for a visit, that our days have ended.

“I said, who is going to take care of my two little children who are still writing their exams in a boarding school in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital? But thank Allah for sparing all of us.”

A neighbour of the two slain brothers that lived opposite the NAF main gate, which was the first port of call of the terrorists, said that the attackers, who arrived the base around 4am, called for Subhi prayers in a nearby mosque before they started chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Great).

“The terrorists entered the compound and saw a Toyota hilux loaded with bags of beans, and they asked my deceased neighbour to provide the keys of the loaded vehicle to them.

“When he said the keys were with the driver somewhere else, they immediately opened fire on him. His brother was ambushed at his patent medicine store around 7am a few metres away from the NAF main gate and was killed.”

Another resident close to the NAF base said: “When I heard a strange voice close to our mosque, I asked myself who are these people calling for Subhi prayers? I peeped outside just to see what was happening, and when I discovered that the voice is a strange one, I quickly went back home.

“Later, we went to the mosque and performed our prayers with my deceased neighbours who were killed after the prayers.”

Mallam Abba Usman, who resides in Mwaramti village, opposite the 33 Artillery Regiments, which was not left out of the devastating attacks, said: “The terrorists were very active and brave, as they stopped and picked dead bodies of their members.” 

 

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