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Kaduna attackers wanted my head-Redeemed Church

Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:30
Old giant threes with fat, twisting trunks that  outlived their colonial planters, spread forth their huge branches of green leaves over the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Jengree  in Bassa Local Government Area, LGA, of Plateau State.
The hospital, said to be over 60 years old, bore  all the trappings of colonial structures in Nigeria – simple homes of asbestos roofs with walls  made of stones and well spaced from each other; and rows of flower beds all over the place.
In one of the wards, Pastor Emmanuel Danjuma Garkida lay on his sick bed bare-chest, with sunken eyes that seemed to stare at nothing.
 There was a wide band of bandage on his lower abdomen. The story behind the bandage is a summary of the bloodlet that took place in Saminaka in  Lere LGA, Kaduna State,  on  April 13 and 14  after the 2015 gubernatorial election.  In barely audible voice, Garkida, who  hails  from Borno State, narrated to Sunday Vanguard his close shave with death.

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