Nigeria: Lessons From Boko Haram Terror

Friday 19th April, 2003 seemed to me like just any other day. But unknown to me, it was a day that the enemy had decreed death by mob clubbing or jungle justice for me.

The testimony however was that the good Lord was on hand to deliver me from what would have been sure death. I set out from Abuja with my immediate younger brother, Mike, on our way to our village, Gakem, in north Cross River State to cast our vote the next day in the presidential election scheduled for that weekend and to enjoy Easter with our folks and thereafter return to our base in Abuja. Somewhere in Adikpo, Benue State, less than 20 kilometres to our destination, we ran into a crude road block of assorted tree trunks, tyres and stones mounted by thugs who said they were protesting against the rigging of the Benue governorship election held a few days earlier which they alleged had denied their man Paul Unongo of the then All Peoples Party (APP) of sure victory.

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