Victims of Kaduna Easter day bombing recount their experiences...

Another victim, Nura Gwarno, a 400-level student of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) is receiving medical treatment at Barau Dikko Specialist Hospital, Kaduna.

 Gwarno, a student in the Mechanical Engineering Department said he came to Kaduna from Kano to operate a commercial motorbike to enable him make some income since he was on a three-month break.
 Garba told the reporter how he got involved in the crash. He recounted his experience of the blast. Hear him: “I do sell dabino (dates palm) for a living. I have been into the business for some time now. On that fateful day, all of a sudden, I heard a very loud sound and I only saw myself been lifted high into the sky with my wheel barrow with which I carry my dates. After that, all I could remember was that, I saw my hand being cut off.

 “I was then taken to this hospital (St. Gerald Catholic Hospital). And since then people, sympathizers have been coming to commiserate with us. I must say we are earnestly grateful for their visit and support. We are also grateful to the state governor, Sir. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa for his kind gesture towards us the victims of the bomb blast.

 “I also pray that those that are bent on bringing this calamity on us in the north and throughout Nigeria will have a rethink. I pray that their sins will reveal them. I am also urging the good people of the north to please, without wasting time, take a very useful stand on how to end this menace. Because if they allow it to go beyond this level, at a point it would go beyond the level of killing and maiming those of us that are poor to killing even the rich ones too.

 “It is only us the poor masses that are often at the receiving end. We are being killed, butchered and forgotten. However, we pray that Almighty God should forgive those behind these animalistic acts. In addition, God should continue to bless us as those behind these acts would surely receive God’s wrath.”

 Gwarno also told the reporter his story. His words: “I am a 400 level student of Bayero University Kano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I do come here to do okada business whenever I am on vacation. That is why I am not a registered member of the okada riders association yet.

 “I have just finished my Industrial attachment and I am on a three-month break now. That is why I choose to come here and do this okada business so that I can get some little savings before school resumes. I just dropped a passenger shortly before the blast. I only heard a loud noise and all I could recall was that I finally saw myself on this hospital bed.”