Sa’idu Murtala, who lives in the Filin Ball village in the Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state, told how a Christian saved his life during an attack on the Anguwan Rukuba community last Sunday.
Earlier reports said the gunmen broke into the community and shot at random.
Daily Trust says that Governor Caleb Mutfwang announced yesterday that 28 people died in the event.
Murtala, a garden egg salesman, told his story and said he was busy with customers when the gunmen came.
“I used to do business in the Rukuba area. I used to sell eggs from the garden. I told my friend Hassan, who used to sell sugarcane, that it was almost 7:30 and asked him when we were scheduled to go home. He said we should stay till 9 p.m. As soon as I turned around to show clients my garden eggs, I heard gunshots.
“Everyone was looking for a place to hide.” A Christian man suddenly opened his house and hid me inside. I completely lost my mind because I thought I would be killed because the people surrounding me were so angry.
“He put me in his wife’s room and told her to bring me meals. He tried everything he could to calm me down. I stayed the night at his house, and the next day he phoned my dad. After everything was well, my dad came and got me.
“He knows I’m a Muslim since I used to go there every day to do business and then go home. He knows what I believe.
“I lent my phone to one person on a Monday to charge, and they gave it back after things calmed down. They all know that I am a Muslim. He said, “I will always remember this man who saved my life.”
The man who sold the garden eggs remarked that what the Christian man did for him taught him a lesson that he would never forget. He believed that there are nice people everywhere you go.
“It taught me that not everyone is the same. There are good and wicked people in both Islam and Christianity. But if everyone were like the man who saved my life, the world would be a better place. I don’t have anything to give him back, but I know that Allah will recompense him for what he did. He said, “Allah would definitely open his doors.”
Murtala, on the other hand, reported that his friend Hassan, who used to sell sugarcane, is still missing because he couldn’t reach him by phone.
According to our source, the state government put a curfew in place after the attack to calm things down.
Mutfwang has asked people not to take the law into their own hands and promised that the government and other security services are working together to find the people who did it.
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