Ahmad Musa, 52, had worked as a driver with MTN in Kano for six years before the Zaria massacre. He left Kano on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, for his usual weekend visit to his family in Zaria when he was caught up in the incident.
Ahmad, who also lives close to the residence of El-Zakzaky, said he heard gunshots around 1 a.m. on Sunday and rushed there to help. “It was on getting there that I saw many casualties. I was with the members of the Islamic Medical Care Initiative of the movement rescuing people till day break.”
“My brother’s son, Ali, was shot in the neck and I had to hold the drip for him because there was no drip stand. Unfortunately, he gave up and I had to leave him for a five-year-old cousin who was shot too,” he said, expressing disappointment.
As Ahmad attempted to take Ali’s corpse, some soldiers arrived. He pretended as if he had died but, in a bid to be doubly sure, they poured petrol on the victims in the residence and set them ablaze.
“I’d even given up, thinking I was not going to survive, but God is wonderful. I cannot explain how I escaped after they left. I later met a pastor who told me to enter the water tank in his house to reduce my agony. I did for a few minutes.”
As soon as he stepped out of the pastor’s house, he was spotted by soldiers, who arrested him. And so began his journey to prison.
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