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Bombardé by Nobody: 2:36pm On Dec 02, 2013 |
The whistling carries the sound and the smell of exhaust from vehicles,the sound and the smell are not alone this morning;engines from distance,market women in their usual aura,commuters using the road,beggers amongst other fuzzy entities that characterise the Lagos morning have all charged out to grace this mornning. It is 7:00am and Ryan Reus,a software consultant for one of the leading telecomm companies in Lagos,is standing in queue at the Mile2 terminal of the popular BRT bus enroute to CMS. Just like every other morning,Reus who was based abroad before coming to Lagos 5years ago is planning to beat the heavy traffic and get to work before 8:30AM and the BRT bus has been the most efficient in that regard. Reus is not the only one who has found the BRT bus useful,a man in his mid thirties who Reus wud come to know as Wale later dressed in a simple yoruba attire and standing 2persons ahead of Reus has also benefited from the BRT system as well as others on this queue. Reus wud wish he was the only one on this queue bt there are atleast eighty others waiting for a bus that can take a maximum of 65persons but he wd thank hs luck today as he is most certain to get the first bus. At exactly 7:20am,ticket purchase was done and Reus is sitted in the BRT bus 5rows away from the driver and close to the window. The bus is a 65passenger capacity bus with 2distinct column of chairs by both sides and a passage in the the middle,each column contains 16rows of 2chairs to make 64 rows,a few centimeters ahead of both columns is the driver's seat and bsyd it is another passenger seat to make 65,From where Reus is sitted he can get a good view of the Lagos skyline as well as enjoy the efficacy of the bus,bsyd him is a man dressed in a simple yoruba attire,the one two persons ahead of him in the queue.The seats in front of him has a young lady in complete suit probably in her late 20s and an old man wearing a well organised shirt and trouser,directly opposite them at the other column is a man and his wife and behind them is a young girl on school uniform and a stern looking boy most likely an agbero. Everything seems normal today as the bus accelerate in the BRT lane except for a suspiciously looking young man in his early twenties wearing a white dalabia sitting bsyd the driver,this is not the first time Reus is seeing someone on dalabia especially in a city as complicated in Lagos where you find all the characters in the world but the sight of this boy made his stomache rumble as if a thunderstorm is abt to rock the enclosed food container. The boy does nt look fat but his dalabia is exceedingly fat,his face is hidden in hair,rough beards and mustache draw him in close resemblance to a caveman. His hair is covered with a turban that seems to have been done wrongly. Such images have struck horror in the face of many residents since the advent of various millitant and terrorist groups but from the picture Reus can draw from the bus no one seems pertubed so he relaxes,this is just another Lagosian. "Gdmrnng,my name is Wale",the man bsyd Reus said to him in his deep yoruba accent. "Gdmrnng,I'm Ryan",Reus replies "u must be an oyibo doing busnes in Nigeria",Wale "No,nt at all...I'm a Nigerian,born and brought up in the US" "oh,ok"Wale,"so u came back to this country" "[laughs],yh I like it here" "thats good o,if na me I no go come back" "[laughs],We all see differently",Reus"Did u notice that guy sitting bsyd d driver?" "who,ok that boy that looks lyk an amacha?" "yh,what do you think" "he is just a dirty boy,they are the 1s making Lagos urgly" "He is nth serious" "wetin u think sey ihm b,millionaire? Abeg no reason am na small boy ihm be" "ok",just my imagination Reus thought. At exactly 7:35am the dalibia wearing man stands up,muttering something that sounded cryptic. "Ogbeni joko jor",the driver shouted at the man but he seemed unmoved. "oga sidon jor",the agbero lukin guy at the other side shouted"abi u think say na danfo u dey"he added. Everyone seem to be angry at the dalabia wearing guy bt he just continued with what he was doing,the driver deccelerated in anger,wanting to push the chaos attractor out of the bus but in a swift action the dalabia wearing guy pulled his dalabia off to reveal the well aligned c4 explosives tied to his body and the trigger in hs hands. "Move this bus or I blow it up",the guy said in his deep Chadian accent. |
Re: Bombardé by Nobody: 3:05pm On Dec 02, 2013 |
Reus had his mouth open for almost 5minutes,he was struggling to recover from the shock of what he saw,it was like a hollywood movie playing before him. "Oh my God!",he was finally able to utter,he looked around and the chaos around him best explained the terror he was encountering,right before his eyes was a suicide bomber with a chest load of c4. "Please don't kill us,we will give you anything u want,ye mo gbe o(I'm in trouble),te mi ti tan(my own has finished)",Wale pleads to no avail,the yoruba man has lost his composure,he was shaking so much u wud think it was a china phone vibrating;his eyes was mud red and flooded with tears;his nose did not help matters either,the stream of catarrh that rushed down to his mouth would remind you of the Benue-Niger river confluence,he bent his head to pray bt prayer has become more difficult for him than it is for ASUU to avoid strike for a decade,he goes down on his knees in the moving bus and finally let the tears run down and cried out loud. He is not the only one crying in this bus,infact the only people not crying are those that have fainted already. Looking directly opposite them to the other column is the young school girl,all she had in mind was studying today,she even bypassed her parent's persistence to stay at home cuz she was not feeling too well to go to school but she insisted because she had a test to write,had she known,she would have listened to her parents. If she was to die,the last thing her dad would remember was shouting at her,such was the line of her thought. She was psychologically down and lost her senses the very moment she saw the bomb. Her brain and her heart began to loose count,she would not last the next 20mins even if the bomb does not detonate. She wud ve loved a little hug but the most likely person to do that for her now is the agbero looking guy beside her but he fainted immediately he saw the bomb. The terror in the bus did not end there and the couple infront of the school girl illustrate further the emotional effect of the apparent terrorist standing a few metres away. Their wedding was just last saturday and they had a great amount of life ahead of them,but all their dreams and aspirations have been rounded up within the past few minutes,at that moment the love they had celebrated did not reverbr8,the only thing they could think of was death; "honey,lets pray",the wife said to her husband,he agreed and they started praying but what ruled his heart was not the prayer they were praying but the sound of that word 'honey' ,the word that characterised the sweetness of their love,this might be the last time he would. "I love you",he said to his wife in an 'all is lost' tone "I love you too",she replied"Bt we re not done on earth yet",she added,she is one with a lot of faith. Opposite 1 Like |
Re: Bombardé by Mynd44: 4:26pm On Dec 02, 2013 |
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Re: Bombardé by Nobody: 5:40pm On Dec 02, 2013 |
....Sweat dropped from the face of the Chadian lyk water running through a dry tap,he did not need a Frank Edoho to know he was on the hot seat. His bodyheat had risen phenomenally,so much that his cells began to protest. 'What did I do wrong',he thought,'I stacked the c4 well,connected all the parameters and made sure the trigger was right,nth cud posbly go wrong'. He took more time to examine everything,did a couple of checks,pulled the trigger again and nothing happened,he was beginning to loose it and it was noticeable. Reus observed the situatn in the bus,most of the passengers were still in their slumber bt some have noticed the chadian's failure,the driver being one of them. "Oloshi oloriburuku(insults) ma pa e lo ni(I'l kill u 2day)",the driver said as he brot d bus to a halt. In a quick action,the Chadian bursts at the door trying to open it but failed,he sights some men rushing towards him from the end of the bus and cud read the expression on the face of those within,and the driver was fast closing in on him. With his right foot planted on the floor and a swift movement he dives to the window,bursting through with his shoulder smashing the glass. He lands on the road outside the bus sustaining a few bruises but such was not his concern now,he quickly picks himself and runs ahead,drifting into the pedestrian walkway bursting through the stream of pple. He is not alone in that race,the driver opened the door and chased after him as two other men followed. The agbero luking guy apparently brot back to reality by the occurence jumped out the window,he is followed by an igbo boy and they all chase afta the Chadian who still has the c4s fastened to his chest. "Ole! Ole!! Ole!!!",they shouted as they chased appealling to those ahead to stop the striding chadian who was 6m ahead of them. A chant that means 'thief' is common in Lagos and is used when chasing a thief,it is nt surprising that they cud nt find the word 'terrorist' in their vocabulary to use in ds chase as terrorists are nt common in ds part of the world. In the bus,words cannot express the joy- shock mixture of feelings with everyone,even the impressive Elvis Osho wud fail in this task. It was an unimaginable drop of miracle,nt even in a million centuries wud a miracle man pull that through.Its like having ur heart in ur mouth and then a new heart developes in its rightful place. Unbelievable! and the mood in the bus best xplains it,most of those who fainted were revived successfully,some that did nt faint b4 fainted cuz of the occurence. There were shouts of joy and pple praising their God. Most prominent of those is the couple who prayed nt 2 long ago,they were so ecstatic they burst into tears. Their future that seemed to have bn shreded has just bn reassembled and it is just unbelievable. The past few minutes wud be the most memorable in their life if they leave there alive. Talkn abt leavin the bus,while some pple still sit in shock or joy of the experience,many others are scrambling to get out of the bus,a miracle myt have just happened bt they are taking no chances. The rush to get out of the bus was so much that there was a stampede at both exits of the bus,and some persons got bruised in the process,the adrenalin flow made some to even jump out through the bus window. Sitted at the exact same spot was Ryan Reus,he too had gone through the joy/ shock mixture and he took time to contain himself and bring himself back to his right frame of mind. It was 8:05am now and the bus was gr8ly deserted,those left behind were those who were still in their slumber and a few others yet to contain themselves. The only pple in their ryt frame of mind still left in d bus were Reus and an Edo man by the name Osho,even Reus' companion Wale did nt think twice b4 jumping out through the window,stepping on Reus in the process. Reus looked around to carefully examine the bus. He noticed a young school girl lying lifeless on the floor,the footprints on her body suggests she was stepped upon during the rush. Reus dashed off quickly to pick her up,she was already pale and had no pulse,he tries his firstaid techniques but none worked,he was feeling sad now. "Pls help me lets get her to any hospital nearby",Reus called out to Osho "Oh my God! She is nt breathing",Osho stated the obvious "Quickly,put her on my back",Reus said. Osho cleared the way for Reus after putting the skulgirl on Reus' back. They came out of the bus,saw a clinic by the road and ran there and just as they were entering the clinic they felt the impact and heard the sound of an explosion from a distant. The bomb has exploded. NEWS HEADLINES PUNCH - 80die and several others injured as bomb xplodes in market square. - emergency agencies at the scene of the incident recovering corpses - FG codemns bombing and condoles with families of victims THE SUN - FG declares amnesty for suicide bomber's ghost as bomb meant for BRT bus explodes in a market claiming 100lives and injuring several others - opposition parties blame bombing on the present administration - IGP says its an act of God THIS DAY - 90die and 50injured as bomb rocks lagos - world leaders,FG,Rights groups condemn bombing. - suicide bomber wud be brot to book,Jonathan THE NATION - Emergency agencies say only 20died and 30injured as bomb meant for BRT bus detonates in market - FG sets up comittee to investigate bomb blast - BKH claims responsibility for bombings. VANGUARD - ASUU calls off strike as bomb kills 92 and injures several others in Lagos - Opposition parties call for state of emergency,bus driver who chased after the suicide bomber was one of the victims - Young school girl and 2 others die after surviving bomb blast in bus. The end. |
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