Salihu Yahaya, a 17 year-old
secondary student in Bauchi state, on Friday narrated how he escaped the
“slaughter slab” of ritual killers in Kano state.
In an interview with NAN, the
student said he had not recovered from the trauma three weeks after the gory
incident.
According to him, after he was
captured and taken to an undisclosed location, he and 18 other victims were
dressed in red cloth and numbered, just as the first 16 people were slaughtered
in his presence.
“I was in front of our house in
Bauchi at 12 noon on June 23rd when some two persons in a car stopped and
inquired about a bakery very close to our house,” he said.
“I was heading to the bakery
house at that time so I volunteered to join them in the car and show them the
place. Immediately I entered, I was hypnotized and lost my senses, only to find
myself in a compound some hours later, along with 18 others victims, all of us
dressed in red material that had been numbered, and our heads completely
shaved.”
Yahaya said at that point, the beheading
of the victims began in the presence of all of them.
“We were watching helplessly as a
huge man came along with his other accomplices, tied the hands of the first
victim, slaughtered him and preserved the gushing blood in a container,” he
said.
“I was number 18 in the queue and
when the 16th person was beheaded, the slaughter-man said he was tired, and
therefore directed that the three of us remaining be kept in a room till early
morning the following day for him to complete the exercise.
“At that point, I wished I had my
turn that day because the sight was too much to bear.”
He said luck came their way when
by 3am, the hefty man mandated to keep watch over the three of them complained
of headache and went in search of ‘panadol’, leaving the room they were kept,
open.
“The three of us decided to take
the chance and rushed out, only to discover that the house was the only
structure in a bush and had no perimeter fence,” he said.
“We ran long distances in
different directions, until I fell down unconscious, only to wake up later in
the day to discover that I was in a police station in Kano.
“The policemen, who were so nice
to me, provided me with food and a place to take bath, after which they
collected the telephone number of my brother in Bauchi, which I have, off-hand,
and alerted him.”
The student, who is still looking
scared and had to be persuaded by his brothers to grant the interview to NAN,
said the room they were kept was full of human heads and bodies of those
slaughtered ahead of them.
“As I am talking to you now, I am
still seeing the face of the slaughter man three weeks after the incident and
the scene of the gory happening will remain in my memory for long,” he
lamented.
He said he had not been attending
school since his return from Kano because of his state of mind.
Yahaya Yerima, father of the
student, confirmed the incident but could not grant NAN an elaborate interview
on the issue as he was busy preparing for the wedding of his daughter, slated
for Saturday, July 14.
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