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Where for gwags?
Bandit for gwagwalada, how come?
You sure say no be all those bagger boys?

no be the same Gwags them come kidnap Uni Abuja Employees and some students?

I think it was just panic attack. Bandits usually operate in the late evening before the day is fully dark. Probably they were armed robbers.

Thank God for safety.

Appreciate us too, we literally don't sleep and work round the clock for Nigerians safety too.

But the military cannot be everywhere also.

I had a similar experience some time ago but along Benin/ore road. I was driving alone from Lagos to Benin and just after okada, there was a young shall grow bus in front of me then suddenly I noticed the way the bus driver did an instant u-turn and based on instinct I followed up immediately till we stopped somewhere and heard there was an attack in front. All cars coming stopped as well and no car was coming from the opposite direction. Till after about 30 mins we saw cars coming and told us soldiers have taken control so we can move. On getting to the spot I saw people wounded with blood everywhere on the road. It was horrible but I just had to move as quickly as I could.

Thank God for saving you...

However, I respectfully disagree with you about banditry being a problem only God can solve!

Even as a fellow Christian, I find such talk abhorrent!

If all nations thought like this, where would the world be?!! Evil thrives in Nigeria despite us being the most prayerful and religious nation on Earth... What does that say about our great faith with no work backing it?!!

Insecurity thrives because of the absence of Leadership! Or worse still, because those elected permit it, even fund it!

Elect a no nonsense leader today, or let the military take over today, you won't hear of terrorism or banditry after just a month in office! This is a clear and proven fact!!!

jesusjnr2020:
How God Saved Me From The Hands Of Bandits On My Way To Abuja

Having heard severally about the ordeals suffered by some individuals in the hands of armed robbers while on a journey, including several close family members, i often wondered what it would like if I encountered such myself, because i'd never experienced such while traveling by road.

However all that was about to change several years ago when I had embarked on a journey from Lagos to Abuja.

We started the journey quite late on that day, at about 10am so by the time we got to Abuja, it was already early hours of the next day.

Having gotten to the outskirts of the FCT, Gwagwalada to be precise, the feeling was meant to be one of relief having come such a long way, and almost arriving at our destination, however, it suddenly turned to one of apprehension, as we saw several buses suddenly reversing with speed on the other lane, instead moving in the opposite direction.

Immediately, the driver of the bus I had traveled with didn't wait for anyone to tell him what was going on, as he immediately hit the reverse gear and also joined the others on the other lane moving with the back of the bus not knowing exactly why he was doing so.

It was later on we got to know that it was bandits that had mounted road blocks on the express road in order to rob road users, that we were trying to evade.

Not long afterwards, we saw that some vehicles had started moving in the forward direction once again, so we joined them not knowing exactly what was going on but assuming that it meant the road was now safe again for use.

When we had gotten close to the point the bandits had mounted the road blocks, we now understood what had taken place, as we saw sticks and stones littered on the ground, and some armed soldiers standing by and waving touches at the vehicles, beckoning to the road users that it was all clear and now safe again to use the road.

By the side of the road, we saw a parked camouflaged military luxurious bus fully loaded with military personnel, so it was obvious they were the ones that actually chased off the bandits.

The timing to me was something else, as the first time that bandit or robbers decided to attack road users on the same road I was travelling, was the same time that a camouflaged military luxurious bus packed with military personnel decided to use the same road.

I believe it was God protecting His own, although at the time, I also had some concerns, because although it was the outskirts of Abuja, I thought if those bandits could have the mind to stage such an attack in the FCT, how much more else where?

That's why I'm not too surprised at what's going on with banditry in the nation as I long saw it coming.

I pray God would intervene in the situation though, because it appears a problem too big for men alone to solve.

God bless.

Thank God for His Protection on your life.

JuanDeDios:
He said, "I believe it was God protecting His own." I guess those who have died on that road weren't God's own.

Common, listen to yourself

jesusjnr2020:
How God Saved Me From The Hands Of Bandits On My Way To Abuja

Having heard severally about the ordeals suffered by some individuals in the hands of armed robbers while on a journey, including several close family members, i often wondered what it would like if I encountered such myself, because i'd never experienced such while traveling by road.

However all that was about to change several years ago when I had embarked on a journey from Lagos to Abuja.

We started the journey quite late on that day, at about 10am so by the time we got to Abuja, it was already early hours of the next day.

Having gotten to the outskirts of the FCT, Gwagwalada to be precise, the feeling was meant to be one of relief having come such a long way, and almost arriving at our destination, however, it suddenly turned to one of apprehension, as we saw several buses suddenly reversing with speed on the other lane, instead moving in the opposite direction.

Immediately, the driver of the bus I had traveled with didn't wait for anyone to tell him what was going on, as he immediately hit the reverse gear and also joined the others on the other lane moving with the back of the bus not knowing exactly why he was doing so.

It was later on we got to know that it was bandits that had mounted road blocks on the express road in order to rob road users, that we were trying to evade.

Not long afterwards, we saw that some vehicles had started moving in the forward direction once again, so we joined them not knowing exactly what was going on but assuming that it meant the road was now safe again for use.

When we had gotten close to the point the bandits had mounted the road blocks, we now understood what had taken place, as we saw sticks and stones littered on the ground, and some armed soldiers standing by and waving touches at the vehicles, beckoning to the road users that it was all clear and now safe again to use the road.

By the side of the road, we saw a parked camouflaged military luxurious bus fully loaded with military personnel, so it was obvious they were the ones that actually chased off the bandits.

The timing to me was something else, as the first time that bandit or robbers decided to attack road users on the same road I was travelling, was the same time that a camouflaged military luxurious bus packed with military personnel decided to use the same road.

I believe it was God protecting His own, although at the time, I also had some concerns, because although it was the outskirts of Abuja, I thought if those bandits could have the mind to stage such an attack in the FCT, how much more else where?

That's why I'm not too surprised at what's going on with banditry in the nation as I long saw it coming.

I pray God would intervene in the situation though, because it appears a problem too big for men alone to solve.

God bless.

How is this a testimony?? Its not Asif you met the bandits face to face or that your bus ran into their rain of bullets and passed untouched...your driver only applies common sense to reverse when he saw other road users reversing....I can assure you if the driver was stubborn, he would have ran into them....no miracle here in your writeup its just common sense

All is Well that Ends Well.

jesusjnr2020:
Another remarkable thing happened to me while I was on my way to Abuja on another journey. This time it wasn't a robbery or bandits' attack, but something entirely different.

Now, I've also heard several people share their painful experiences about how they lost their luggage in the course of their journeys, but I had never experienced such in my life.

But on a certain day while I was traveling from Port Harcourt to Abuja, it was that close.

We had just gotten to Zuba, and parked at the bus stop to drop off some passengers.

I was at the back seat when the Siena stopped, but after they alighted, i thought about changing my position to the passenger seat at the front, since the seat there was empty.

So I did just that, but after the vehicle had began to moving, something just made me look at the side mirror of the Siena, and when I did, I sighted my two bags which I was traveling with, on the floor behind the car and by the side the men who had just alighted from the vehicle.

Immediately i called the attention of the driver and told him to stop, that I saw my bags on the floor. So he stopped the car and reversed to the point where my bags were. So i immediately got down from the car, and took my two bags and put back into the boot of the car. The men who had brought down my bags from the car had a dazed look on their faces, but I didn't even say anything to them, whatever their intentions were, I just took my bags put them back into car, and went back to the front seat, and the driver zoomed off.

That was how close I came to losing my luggage right in the middle of now where.

For those who know the bus stop in Zuba where vehicles going to Abuja drop off some of their passengers, they would understand how close it was. It wasn't like in a park where someone could come back to ask for his things, but a transit point on the road, where people traveled to different parts of the country. The guys who brought my bags down from the car said they were on their way to Jos or so, so that would have surely been it... There was no way I could have possibly gotten back my bags from those guys.

But it seemed God thought otherwise, hence He made me to take that quick glance at the side mirror at that crucial moment when the car had already taken off.

That the only reason why I haven't yet lost my luggage while traveling up til date.

God bless.

The driver should be the one to be blame had it been your luggages went missing.

How can he just sit and allow passenger to pick their luggages alone without being there knowing fully well that there are other luggages there too.

Hmm

Hmmm

RaptObserver:
I think it was just panic attack. Bandits usually operate in the late evening before the day is fully dark. Probably they were armed robbers.

you mean they have a specific period of the day they operate? They don’t come out I’m the mornings and at other times of the day?

cucumbar:
you mean they have a specific period of the day they operate? They don’t come out I’m the mornings and at other times of the day?

The way security agents think they work on intelligence and strategies that is how banditry is. The operate when the guards are down. Most checking points are loose in the evening and at weekends when most admin support is on break from the offices. Bandits operate in the evening and weekends on the roads. Go and study most attacks and check time of occurrence. It is even safer to travel at midnight than in the evening. Cos they know fewer cars are on the roads at midnight and also their kind of targets hardly travel at midnight. Don't you wonder why tokunbo drivers are still delivering cars over night and long haul age vehicles are still moving at night. Banditry is an art.

God bless our armed forces, we appreciate and love you guys.

Angelfrost:
Thank God for saving you...

However, I respectfully disagree with you about banditry being a problem only God can solve!

Even as a fellow Christian, I find such talk abhorrent!

If all nations thought like this, where would the world be?!! Evil thrives in Nigeria despite us being the most prayerful and religious nation on Earth... What does that say about our great faith with no work backing it?!!

Insecurity thrives because of the absence of Leadership! Or worse still, because those elected permit it, even fund it!

Elect a no nonsense leader today, or let the military take over today, you won't hear of terrorism or banditry after just a month in office! This is a clear and proven fact!!!

You have a point, it needs strong pragmatic action, spending the right money on the right military equipment, proper mapping, more surveillance and coverage of our air space etc.

hopefulLandlord:
but whenever something bad happens blame the devil or say god works in mysterious ways

When all good things are credited to God, and all evil is thrown at the feet of mankind/devil, it makes thinking people conclude that theists have only invented a God as a sort of repository for holding all positive beliefs, such as hope for the future, surviving our mortality by means of an afterlife, etc.

If God gets all the credit, he also gets all the blame. And trying to have it both ways is just further evidence to me that God is an invention of man rather than the inverse.

You have started again with your kulikuli analysis, where is my koboko laden with chilly pepper to flog shege on your bumbum

JuanDeDios:
He said, "I believe it was God protecting His own." I guess those who have died on that road weren't God's own.

I swear. That line in his story pissed me off. God protecting his own. Others on that road or anywhere else in the world dying at that same moment weren't God's own. Stupid Christians.

Where for gwags?
Bandit for gwagwalada, how come?
You sure say no be all those bagger boys?

Leave that lier,

WhatThen:
I swear. That line in his story pissed me off. God protecting his own. Others on that road or anywhere else in the world dying at that same moment weren't God's own. Stupid Christians.

You're the stupid one here

Yes God protects those he chooses to protect

Pray you're among the lucky few

Nor be everybody wey dey go church be children of God

I really thank for u weda it's armed robbers or bandits, u were alive and whole to tell de story.. Pple saying y are u attributing it to God has clearly not bin in life and death situation.. If dey have been, dey won't ever talk like dat,if u face life and death situations, u will see urself speaking in tongues, which u have not done b4 all becos of fear... There is a thin line BTW life and death.. So if God saved him..allow him to testify and appreciate him cos the devil is not smiling des days

hopefulLandlord:
but whenever something bad happens blame the devil or say god works in mysterious ways

When all good things are credited to God, and all evil is thrown at the feet of mankind/devil, it makes thinking people conclude that theists have only invented a God as a sort of repository for holding all positive beliefs, such as hope for the future, surviving our mortality by means of an afterlife, etc.

If God gets all the credit, he also gets all the blame. And trying to have it both ways is just further evidence to me that God is an invention of man rather than the inverse.

Actually God takes both.


And it's not just one God. It's a lot of them...at least the ones that made mankind.

The truth is there's no blame. Humanities problem is we see things from the perspective of good and evil, meanwhile there's nothing as such. Every events is neccessary for our growth into godhood.

Your title suggests you had a narrow escape. On Friday I saw traffic robbers with Cutlass smashing peoples Glass and windows right beside me at Ketu inwards Zeven up.

God will always standout for his children

how e come be say na god save you? na ur sense u use abeg

Where for gwags?
Bandit for gwagwalada, how come?
You sure say no be all those bagger boys?

No be only gwags na gwaragwara!

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