A stray bullet

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It was a period of chaos, unrest and so much uncertainty, as the end SARS protest which had started out on social media was turning into something very serious. The citizens were tired of the harassments from the so called SARS official especially on the young boys as whoever they see that’s well dressed is automatically a victim or a yahoo boy. Stories had it that they took some of the belongings of these boys, some where taken to the cell without trials and all manner of dehumanizing treatments where meted out to people who fall victim to their search.

The ordeal was so much that a revolt started but it ended up bloody. This scenario was remarkably to me because I lost someone I know through a stray bullet. Antony was a very promising young man who was a first class graduate of mechanical engineering. Very bright young man but had gone out to join the protest and when the heat was on, the Army officers opened fire on the innocent protesters and he was hit by a stray bullet and he died on the spot.

The painful thing here is that his family was outside the country and he was planning on joining them before the gruesome incident that took his life. So many people died from the shoot out. Innocent citizens who have no weapons but went out for a protest were murdered in cold blood by their own country. It was a night of tragic tears. That season also many people died of stray bullets attacks.

A young man was said to have just posted on his social media handle that Nigeria will not kill him only to be hit by a stray bullet few hours after his post on the social media and the bullet hit him on the head and he died at the spot. Another girl who escaped by a hairs breath was said to be watching the drama and shootings happening on the streets through her window and a stray bullet flew right into her room through the open window only to miss her by a hairs breath and hit the wall. She literally just saw her own death with her eyes.

I heard another gruesome story of a woman in the market when there was a shootout in the market by some unknown gun men who were spraying bullets in the air. She ran and went to hid under a table in a bid to protect herself. The bullet came to the table where she was and hit her. The woman died. A mother of two small children who had left her house in the morning to look for daily bread was brought back in corpse. In all we should just pray never to be victims of evil day. Stray bullets have done more harms than good.

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