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The local proverb that any animal which escapes from a set trap in the
bush will always run far from every bent stick, whether it is a trap or
not, played out yesterday in Kaduna, when residents went into a frenzy
and palpable panic over a ‘suspect bag”. It turned out that the killer
bag just contained sachets of packed water popularly called ‘pure
water’.
But the jitter is not for nothing. Kaduna has fallen victim to the Boko
Haram onslaught on several occasions resulting in huge casualty
figures.
The tension and panic created by the ‘suspect’ was so strong and thick
that it could almost be cut with a knife. It happened among residents of
Sabon Gari in Tundun Wada area in the metropolis when a kit bag
suspected to contain bomb was discovered at the residence of a former
council chairman.
The incident occurred just as the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF)
condemned last Sunday’s bombing of St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church in Jos
and called on Nigerians to unite and fight terrorism.
Former chairman of Kaduna South Local Government Area, Alhaji Auwalu
Ali Tafoki, was said to have discovered the kit bag suspected to be
containing the bomb at about 6am after returning from the morning
prayers usually observed by Muslims. The bag was said to have been
dropped by unknown persons.
Given the tension and rampant cases of bomb attacks in the city, Tafoki
took the bag for a load of bombs. He raised the alarm. And pronto, the
whole neighbourhood was alerted. The residents, in quick droves began
to run as fast as they could, just to be far enough from the bag, which
they thought, would soon explode. Nobody dared to be near the ‘suspect’.
Many did not even bother seeing it before fleeing. Many of those who
dared in the past to “see and confirm” did not live to tell of what they
saw.!!!!
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