The sounds still raging in our minds, if this was America it would sound like the 4th of July. Only the 4th may scare pets and end up with lost dogs, this is much more.
The first sounds of gunshots at 10:18pm Tuesday night sounded like a movie, only this time we know how real movies can be. Gunshots, grenades, was it bombs?
The Kuje prisons and it's environs on Tuesday night the 5th of July 2022 had the worst heart breaking time in history.
The aftermath, even the leaves hang too mortified to be shaken. They must be dead from fear.
Choppers flying around to assess the damage. And foot soldiers doing a sweep.
Families hurdled together on the ground praying life gives them another chance to change what they can, or just to stay alive for another day. Just to breathe fine without the shakes.
We remain grateful to God and circumstance for one thing, AEDC for the first time in its existence supplied power while this occurrence went down, if not for the electricity who knows how many generators would be kept running and the entry of these unknown gunmen wouldn't have been noticed till the worst had happened.
People with health conditions, especially heart conditions are truly in need of medical attention, panic and PTSD is the mark left on people.
What we know for sure is this;
The Kuje medium correctional facility was attacked, this was a well planned operation on the path of the attackers, some prisoners fled, some prisoners were caught, some prisoners ran to safety and returned willingly at daybreak, security operatives responded, there were casualties on both sides.
Do we say thank goodness they had no intentions of attacking residential buildings? That the target was the prison and the gunshots in the streets were to cause distractions from the main target?
Let's just keep hope alive.
Omo na ground we dey through the night till daybreak, all lights off, and in total silence, hearing the sounds of machine guns, AK-47, grenades and possibly some kinda bombs shook the entire prison and it's environs; Shetuko village (behind the prison), Elrufai estate (adjacent the prison) and parts of Pasali close enough to feel the vibrations. We could hear footsteps out the window and gunshots from different corners. Mehhhhhhnnnnnn... Now we know first hand.
Naija how far?
More updates as we get.
Drop your comments.
My fellow Kuje please share your experience, that's for those wey don get themselves 👇👇
Mercy Patrick is a multipotentialite, skilled photographer, creative writer and spoken word poet.Outside the professional scene, Mercy Patrick is a song writer, idealist, resource person with unconventional methods for youths struggling with their personalities, a rapper, story teller and a rusty acoustics player. 
