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2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by amsad19(m): 7:15am On Oct 31, 2014 |
This morning as early as 5 a.m. I and my Personal Assistant left Yola on our way to Maiha, luckily for me a good Samaritan had allowed my daughter the use of his phone and we spoke. I told her exactly where to wait. By 8.40am we met them weak, tired and with swollen feet. We were supposed to be joyful but honestly we were not. The magnitude of the humanitarian disaster that we saw is better imagined than witnessed. Men, women and Children some as young as a day old were moving along the road heading for Pella from where they hope to connect to Yola or other safer locations. It was a human catastrophe of monumental proportions. Some headed their cattle and other domestic animals on the journey to the unknown. I saw about three children all less than 5 years old who had lost contact with their parents. I saw a woman in Labour. I saw danger, I saw naked fear in the eyes of the people as they moved towards an unknown destination, I saw despondency and hopelessness. The worst picture I saw is that of soldiers running away; soldiers and civilians competed in entering a tipper in Maiha! I was dumbfounded! Some of the soldiers begged us to take them but We couldn't as there was no space in our vehicle. The Mararraban Pella junction has now turned out to be a Military cantonment of some sort. Hundreds of Soldiers and their hardware are holed up there. As we drove back, several things came to My mind. How did this masifat start? When will this end? Who will end it? How come our gallant soldiers run away from combat? Who supplies the insurgents their superior weapons? How come there is no word from the Military Authorities on the latest attack on MUBI? Meanwhile fighting is still going on in areas around Vimtim. The insurgents are bent on reaching the residence of the Chief of Defense Staff. As of yesterday the safest place around Mubi was Vimtim but by today that may not be the case. The main market in Mubi was bombed this morning with heavy losses in terms of goods but no reported casualties. I got across to one Iliya Mai Zane who went and saw the damage in the market. Farmlands were also abandoned. One Isaac Inuwa a Pastor and Assistant General Overseer of Triumph of Faith Church in Lamorde Mubi who went to pick his kid from a private school was reportedly killed by the insurgents yesterday in the presence of his wife. Many people trapped in the town including my colleagues and some students of Adamawa State University, Mubi are without electricity, water, food or other essentials. Those running to Yola do not know where to go. It's a monumental disaster that is hidden by all the noise about the politics of 2015 elections. Another worry expressed by our people is the silence of Government owned Media in the face of these disasters. Where is their social responsibility to our people? What of the so called Media Center? We are waiting.
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Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by oduastates: 7:18am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Hmm . May olodumare be with you all. We feel your pain. Nobody deserves to be put through this kind of ordeal either by the terrorists or the government . Keep safe. These are the sort of pictures we use to see from central Africa ( Rwanda,Congo etc). But we are not surprised because we have an Obongo in power. |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by amsad19(m): 7:28am On Oct 31, 2014 |
We really need prayers. This nairaland is controlled by 1 Like |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by LegatusGlaber(m): 7:34am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Oh my Goodness! |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by tbaba1234: 7:46am On Oct 31, 2014 |
There is a monumental crisis and all we hear in the news is this stupid politics. Our soldiers are running away from BH now. The house of our Chief of Defence Staff at vimtim has been overrun. We need to recognise this crisis. |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Nobody: 7:51am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Nawao! This is serious o! God please save thy children. |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by brownlord: 7:54am On Oct 31, 2014 |
They are not ready, all i see in this write up is plenty grammer, when they ready to purge out boko haram, they themselves will act and not wait for fg. for now, boko haram are freedom fighters |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Arch1: 7:55am On Oct 31, 2014 |
A large portion of the Nigerian territory is in the control of insurgents. |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Qelvin(m): 7:57am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Arch1:point of correction NORTHERN NIGERIA. 1 Like |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Arch1: 7:57am On Oct 31, 2014 |
brownlord:Who isnt ready? Isnt the locals of the NorthEast who constititute the Civil JTF that fight againt the insurgents or the Nigerian army that take to their heels whenever they see columns of Boko Haram insurgents approaching? |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Arch1: 7:58am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Qelvin:Is Northern Nigeria not part of Nigeria again? |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by engrfcuksmtin(m): 8:03am On Oct 31, 2014 |
........................don't want to be attacked by TANoids, PDP and GEJ till2019 dogs............I would `ve say........... ti eru ba joba eniyan o ni ku kan |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by lonelydora: 8:06am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Result of man-know-man employment in the military. In Israel, some IDF soldiers are not from Israel and they took oath to protect another man's country. But look at our military, no one wants to die in combat. Nigerians waiting for God to come down and help them since 1960. |
Re: 2015 Politics Claiming The Lives Of Our Loved Ones In Mubi by Raiders: 8:07am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Meanwhile, GEJ is more concern about removing the speaker from office while hundreds of Nigerians are killed in Mubi. |
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