As
the smoke cleared from the New Road Luxury Bus Motor Park, in Sabon
Gari Kano, victims of the terror attack, who were lucky to be alive to
tell their stories, on Tuesday recalled moments before the bomb went
off.
Most of the injured victims are currently receiving medical attention at the Murtala Mohammed Memorial Hospital, Kano.
One of the victims, Mr. Emmanuel Bassey,
37, who works at the Luxury bus park as a park attendant attached to
Ezewanta Transport, said he was hurt but lucky and happy to be alive.
In a telephone interview with our
correspondent, (before hospital staff ended the encounter), he was full
of gratitude to God for sparing his life.
According to him, he and several of his
colleagues were going about their normal duties of attracting passengers
to board buses for a commission when a small car with two occupants
came into the park.
“I rushed to them faster than most of my
colleagues. I went and asked them where they were going and one of them
said they had yet to decide and that when they decided they would let
me know. I left them and went away.
“But four of my other colleagues rushed to the car when they saw that I did not succeed.
“As they approached the vehicle, the
driver sped off and headed towards some of the parked buses. Almost
immediately, I heard a deafening sound! Then a thick black smoke and
fire; there was confusion everywhere. I thank God I am lucky to be
alive, my other colleagues died.”
He was not alone, Magawa Goje, 45, a retailer of dried beef, popularly called Kilishi, also counted himself lucky.
Goge said, “I sell Kilishi (dried
beef) at the Sabon Gari Luxury bus park. I was busy selling my Kilishi
to people who are getting on the bus when I heard a loud band and felt a
sharp pain on my chin. That is all I can remember before I woke up on
this bed. I heard people saying Boko Haram did this. Whoever did this
will rot in the hottest part of hell. Allah will surely judge them.”
Meanwhile, traders in and around the
park have relocated into other areas of Sabon Gari as rumours of
reprisals continued to fill the air. Security has also been beefed up
around places of worship
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