Narration Of A Kaduna Bomb-blast Victim On Sunday

This is an excerpt from the report in today's Vanguard Newspaper from a victim of Sunday's bomb-blast in Kaduna, Nigeria. In a working country, the narration of this man should be able to provide suitable information towards coercing evidence on the nature of the IEDs used for the attack.

One of them, Mallam Bala, 35, a Businessman, and father of a daughter spoke to Vanguard at the hospital, recalling his experience.

He said: “I was on my way home after purchasing some rolls of film for my camera. I was driving a Honda CRV jeep. My daughter had just completed her Q’uran recitation class and we were going to celebrate it. I had taken a turn from the Ahmadu Bello Stadium roundabout and was heading back home around 9:30am. I saw a Honda car flashing its hazard light and coming in the opposite direction on the other side of the lane. It was speeding. It was an ash coloured car. I noticed all this under a few seconds. Then at the junction of Sarduana crescent, as we approached each other from the different sides of the road, I suddenly saw the car blast into pieces followed by a loud explosion. The car behind him, was thrown into the air. Almost the same time my jeep was lifted into the air. Yes! My car was taken high into the air.

“Within that short period, I don’t know if it was in the air that I came out, or it was after it landed that I came out. But, my car did not fall upside down. I have the pictures.

“I was outside the car, my shirt was on fire but, my arm was affected more, as you can see. I think it was the fuel from the exploded car. When I gathered myself, I saw human beings lying dead. There were human parts all over the place. People were screaming and just running. Fire started in some areas. I was in pains. My handset, Driver’s License and wallet containing N180,000 were scattered on the ground. I had no strength to go for them. I saw someone take the wallet and just walk away. I could do nothing about it. The scene was too sorrowful to bother about those things. Right now, I am concerned about my health.

“The man that brought me here took my phone away, after he gave it to me to place a call to my wife. He and some people rescued me. But I still thanked him for helping me here. May Allah reward him. I thank God that I am responding to treatment. Not many like me got so lucky.

“I want to tell the people that are carrying out this cruelty to understand that they cannot be killing innocent people and think they are fighting for God. If they have an issue with the government, they should find ways of resolving it, and not take human lives. Since God created us as human beings, we have by no choice of ours become one human family. We must treat each other as such. It does not matter what you believe in. But, as a Muslim, I want to say that Allah has no place for such people in his Paradise.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/easter-sunday-bomb-blast-we-lost-100-members-okada-riders/

Sad and strange times in Nigeria,

How can a wallet contain 180 000?

otokx: How can a wallet contain 180 000?

1000 naira note is possible......

How can a wallet contain 180 000?


i wounder oooooo ,Maybe it is the new N5,000 notes he was using?

survival of the fittest. . .if you can't survive in this part of the world then you can't survive nowhere.
they keep telling us boko haram will meet their waterloo,but we're the ones kissing our early graves.
i miss my two buddies,when i asked about them they told me they've relocated to the cementery.RIP brovs!!!!

Even if ts 1000 naira note.t wil be 100 pieces dat makes a pack that's 100,000 then 80 pieces.which is even big to enta a pocket. Diss man is still recovering from the accident shaaa,mayb ts 1800 naira

ak47mann: 1000 naira note is possible......

What wallet can hold 180 N1000 notes?

Anyways, thank God he is alive to tell his story even if exaggerated.

otokx: How can a wallet contain 180 000?

lol...dude is still dazed from the blast impact...that explains his level of scatter yarning...kindly bear with him.

So all you guys can haggle about is how much the wallet can contain. smh

Maybe he referring to the small handbag that big men carry around.

otokx: How can a wallet contain 180 000?

he probably has dollars, pounds or euro equivalent.

ak47mann: 1000 naira note is possible......

No vex, but not even N20,000 can enter one wallet even if u use N1000 notes. unless he's talking of the Value in dollars which is very possible

How can people be so unkind? You see a dying person and the best thing you could do was to pick up the person's money and walk away not minding if he dies or not. I SMH for some people.

showstopa: So all you guys can haggle about is how much the wallet can contain. smh

Exactly what I wanted to write. .

Maybe the reporter meant to write N18,000. 180k is too much for a wallet. trust me. forget the denomination, I won't put a 180k in my wallet for any reason.
To the story: Am sure God is seeing everything happening in 9ja. Since he permits BH to bomb innocent Nigerians like that, there must be a good reason for it.

GboyegaD: How can people be so unkind? You see a dying person and the best thing you could do was to pick up the person's money and walk away not minding if he dies or not. I SMH for some people.

What about the ones that are here debating the possibility of the man having N180k in his wallet or not...like that is all they got from the interview...Mcheewwwwww

GboyegaD: How can people be so unkind? You see a dying person and the best thing you could do was to pick up the person's money and walk away not minding if he dies or not. I SMH for some people.

What about the ones that are here debating the possibility of the man having N180k in his wallet or not...like that is all they got from the interview...Mcheewwwwww

sorry my bad but it depend on the size of the wallet i think thank GOD he made it..................

Maybe na goat skin bag him dey call wallet

Sorry about the inflated N18K. I guess the impact of the bomb blew it into 180,000 pieces. I'm so so sorry son of islama[b]bad[/b]!

It is a pity to learn of the blast. May be he made a mistake by mentioning wallet, he actually wanted to say Ghana must go bag

Check out this raw video seconds after the explosion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXp1fyDSKE

Super1759: Even if ts 1000 naira note.t wil be 100 pieces dat makes a pack that's 100,000 then 80 pieces.which is even big to enta a pocket. Diss man is still recovering from the accident shaaa,mayb ts 1800 naira

you bad o

The one that made me laugh is when the guy said his phone was stolen after they allowed him to call his wife - just goes to show the evil mentality of the neighborhood wherein this blast occurred.

Willy,ao can U b so cruel,dese BH r killin Nigerians regardless of ur religion. Do U av human feelins @ al?.

For the blast to lift a car, the magnitude of force from the explosive must be great! We should perhaps, be looking at about an explosive power of 50~100 kg of TNT power. I wonder how these guys are able to make such a destructive explosive. Wicked souls!

and the mallams are lobbying the us president and the house members that BH is nt a terrorist organization.i pray that they pack a lorry load of heavy TNT to the american embassy in Abuja and then they will realise that BH is as deadly as their alqueda cousins.

Tony Spike: Narration Of A Kaduna Bomb-blast Victim On Sunday



He said: “I was on my way home after purchasing some rolls of film for my camera./

Rolls of film for your camera at this digital age? Do people still use film with camera. A guy driving Honda CRV jeep should be civilized I think. I don't think this story is true.

otokx: How can a wallet contain 180 000?

1000 notes by 100 pieces in 2packs. What are we talking about here?

showstopa: So all you guys can haggle about is how much the wallet can contain. smh

I taya o! smh too.