A resident of Filin Ball community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state, Sa’idu Murtala, has explained how a Christian saved his life during an attack on Anguwan Rukuba community last Sunday,March 29.
Gunmen stormed the village on Palm Sunday and carried out attacks that led to the de@th of over 20 persons.
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Narrating his ordeal to DailyTrust, Murtala, a garden egg seller, said he was engaged with his customers, when the gunmen arrived in the area.
“I used to do business around the Rukuba community. I used to sell garden eggs. Around 7:30, I told my friend Hassan, who used to sell sugarcane that it was already 7:30 and asked him when we were supposed to go home. He suggested we stay until 9 pm. The moment I turned to where I displayed my garden eggs to attend to customers, I started hearing gunshots.
Everybody was looking for somewhere to hide. All of a sudden, a Christian man quickly opened his house and hid me inside. I completely lost my senses, thinking I would be killed because the situation was terrifying as people around were angry.
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He hid me in his wife’s room and asked his wife to bring food for me. He did everything to calm my mind. I spent the night in his house, and the following day he called my father, who later came and picked me up after the situation was okay.
“He knows I am a Muslim because I used to do my business there everyday and leave for my area. He knows my faith. My phone, which I gave to one Monday for charging, was also returned after the situation was calm. All of them know I am a Muslim. I will never forget this man who saved my life,” he said.
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The garden egg seller said what the Christian man did for him had served as a lesson that he would live to remember, believing that there are good people everywhere you find yourself.
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