After the radio announcement we were so scared and then we started getting phone calls from family friends around. My dad’s friend called him and told him that the crisis just got to their place and it was already spreading like wild fire. Just then my mom’s sister who stays in one part of that community called her
Aunty : hello sister there is fire on the mountain, hope you are home… Pls start running o because they just got to our side and we are on the run…
Mom : Jezzz… Oh my God! Why this and why now… Where do we run to… This is the end of everything…
Just then we heard on the radio that the king of our community has been murdered and the son has fled. This was the most heart breaking news because it meant we were done for. Imagine our own king killed, then what will happen to us… My dad quickly asked us to park what we can for the meantime so that we leave immediately before they get to our street or house… We started packing up as fast as we could.
My little sister was crying and I held her and said “don’t worry, big bro is here okay”… Immediately after saying those words we heard a loud scream from the next compound and we started hearing loud shouts and screams…
“oh my God they are here already… What do we do” my dad said with tears in his eyes as he ran to lock our gate. My mom started praying with her eyes open as we made for the backyard. We made for the fence because that was the only escape route. Everybody was running while the shouts were becoming so Unbreakable. I looked into my dad’s eyes and I could see fear…
He held back his tears as he tried to push us as we scaled our fence… My younger brother was first to leave and then the second and then my youngest sister and then me… Just then we started to hear a bang on our gate and they tried to bring it down… My dad tried to push my mom and she said “no, honey you go first”… My dad said “no, darling you’ll go first because you’re the woman and they children need you more”…
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And so he pushed my mom and my mom turned to help him climb and then my dad said “honey you know I love you very much and I also love my kids… Let me hold them down for the meantime so that you can have enough time to run very far with the kids… If I run with you they will catch up with us very fast”… My mom shouted as she didn’t believe her ears..
“oh my husband pls don’t do this to us I beg of you… We can’t do without you pls… Come with us”… Just then they entered our house and my dad told us to leave immediately… We started running and just seconds later I heard my dad’s shout as he tried to fight… He kept shouting and soon we didn’t hear him again…
My mom stopped to run back but we held her… She cried uncontrollably knowing that her husband was gone…
We ran through the bush part behind our house and we kept stepping over dead bodies… My mom would occasionally fall and rise… I held my sister’s hand so tight and we kept running… Just then we ran into our community’s soldiers and we fell on the ground… They ran to us and picked us up into their truck…
We met some other people in the truck and we were a little relieved atleast because we were in the save hands of the soldiers…the truck kept moving and my mom kept crying as she mentioned my dad’s name…
Few minutes later we heard gun shots directed at our truck and the driver who happens to be a soldier shouted “we are under attack” and before he could finish that statement “a bullet went through his head… The Truck stopped and they opened fire on us… We ran for our lives… I ran as fast as I could holding my sisters hand and my brothers followed behind and we turned to see if mom was following…
She was and we were happy and as we turned to run we heard some gun shots and my mom screamed my name as she dropped to the ground… I turned and what I saw sent momentary paralysis to my body and I lost consciousness for some time… At that point nothing mattered to me anymore and as I stood I could see bullets passing and people were falling…
I temporary lost my hearing and my senses were gone… I could see my mom trying to stand with bullet holes all over her and she fell again and said to me “I love you very much, pls Take care of your brothers and most especially your sister…” and she concluded by saying “pls run and never stop, save yourselves… Mom loves you”… I was still standing and the tears from my eyes was frozen… I could hear my brothers calling my name while my sister kept trying drag me with her… Just then I remembered we needed to keep running…
I remembered that I needed to save my brothers and my sister… I needed to be strong for us… So we kept running…
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😪😥😪 too bad. I didn’t wish to see war for my life.
May God help us all.
I couldn’t stop crying
so touching.. I can feel tears falling inside me.
Dis is jus a tip of wot hapons in borno, Kaduna n zamfara..its pathetic
chaiii tears has filled my heart, Wat a wicked world.