Bullet from terrorists’ gun still in my stomach
EMERGENCY DIGEST- Mukhtar Shuaibu, one of the five hostages freed on Tuesday by terrorists that attacked the Kaduna-bound train in March, has narrated the pains he passed through when a ‘doctor’ battled to extract a bullet from his stomach.
Shuaibu said the bullet lodged in his stomach when one of the terrorists accidentally shot him after his noon prayer on the 85th day of their captivity.
According to him, the terrorists’ ‘doctor’ inserted a finger and scissors into his stomach in search of the bullet.
“When the ‘doctor’ came, he immediately put on his hand gloves and put his finger through the bullet holes into my stomach looking for the bullet. He could not find the bullet.
“Later, he inserted scissors still looking for the bullet. I was shouting because it was paining me. Still, he could not find the bullet,” the freed hostage said.
Shuaibu, who spoke during their visit to Mallam Tukur Mamu, publisher of Desert Herald, who facilitated their release in Kaduna, said what was uppermost in his mind was getting a proper medical procedure.
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He described the hostages’ experience as traumatic and appealed to the Federal Government to quickly secure the release of the others still being held.
Shuaibu said: “The people remaining in captivity are not in good health condition, especially a woman who is close to 90 years and children.
“We were in the terrorists’ captivity until the 85th day, on a Tuesday. I was sitting down. I just finished my noon prayer.
“All of a sudden, I heard the sound of the gun. I suddenly discovered a bullet hit me. I saw blood flowing down through my short nickers.
“Mustapha Imam, a doctoral degree holder, who was also a hostage asked me to lie down. They looked for a piece of cloth to cover the spot above my navel.
“Up till this moment, the bullet has not been found in my body and it is not as if it came out of my body through the back.
“The past four months in the terrorists’ den were traumatic. There was no rest of mind because we were sleeping and waking up with gun sounds.”
Shuaibu said the remaining captives, including children and an aged woman, were in a pitiable condition.
He appealed to the Federal Government to get them rescued as quickly as possible.
