I worked in a tertiary health facility in Zamfara during my compulsory housemanship. That area was ravaged by armed bandits and kidnappers at the time. For every call duty, we had no less than ten new casualties, some brought in dead—men, women, and children. These bandits terrorized villages and killed people without mercy. I sutured different kinds of bul:let wou—nds that period, people sho.t in their genitals, legs, anus—you name it! My nostrils were literally fed up with the sme.ll of innocent blo..od.
There were days I got emotional on the job, as I could not stand the depth of unhindered wickedness that was perpetuated in the land.
Most of the medical officers in surgery department took lots of alcohol. I guess it was their own way of calming their nerves and zoning out of the realities at work.
Most nights, the attac-ked villagers came in soaked in their own blood, crying, cur..sing at Nigeria and calling on God to help them. They had no one to call on, but God.
I remember a six months old pregnant woman who was rap;ed and her husband kill:ed in her presence. Sol.diers were not left out too, they were bad-ly brui.sed and injured. Some di.ed, reigning ins$ults on Nigeria till they breathed their last. It was a horri@fic experience.
I still recall an eight year old girl who was sh-ot in her face. Eyes apart, face in sham:bles, but she managed to breathe through her disfig-ured nostrils. We referred them to ABU teaching hospital but the father said they had no money for surgery. They took her out of the hospital, I really can’t tell how that story ended. She was only eight!
I ran home immediately after my housejob and never looked back.
People sit behind their keypads and drop hot takes when they have no experience of what mass kill…ings is all about. They talk without empathy because they or their loved ones are not in anyway affected.
The truth remains that real kil.-lings have been happening in Nigeria in thousands, and the government has been inattentive to it.
I’m particularly thankful that these two days have aroused our leaders to action. Let them protect those who they are leading. Let them be held accountable for their negligence all through the years.
And I sincerely hope that Nigeria recovers from this colossal disgrace.
May peace dwell in our nation once again.
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