Abdulwaheed Saliu, an indigene of Tunga Maje in
Gwagwalada Area Council narrates how he gave an old
man N20 which landed him in the ritualists den where
people got slaughtered daily and the women kept
serving in a baby factory.
johnmouradAbdulwaheed narrates what happened on
the fateful day he gave an old man N20 naira and met
himself else where.
He said: “When I gave him the money, the moment he
touched the money, I found myself somewhere
unknown to me. I cannot describe the place, but the
only thing I know is that many people were there.
“As I got to the place, some men approached me and
cut my finger, this is my finger that was cut, and a
white cloth was used to collect my blood with my
name and number written on it. The cloth was taken
away. Then, my head was shaved in three places, at
the front, middle and the back.”
AbdulWaheed was numbered 42 out of the 45 people
that were captured that day, which he said were to be
killed on the arrival of the leader of the ritualists:
“When they collected our blood, they told us that their
leader is in America, but he will come back and until he
comes before they will start cutting peoples’ heads,” he
added.
“I did not put my handset in my pocket, I put in my
bag. When I was given a place to sleep, I took the
handset from my bag and told them I wanted to
excrete. It was then that I called one of my
schoolmates and my dad, I told them about the
incident. One of my Islamic teachers called back and
said I should continue praying that God would set me
free,” he said.
On the second day of his sojourn in the unknown world,
he said the boss returned and addressed the group. He
said: “I saw the master and he called himself Ahmed, a
Nigerian, when he came, they rang a bell and from
where I sat, I just found myself moving to where the
master was seated. While he was addressing us, he
said he goes to foreign countries because they have
branches there and they used to take human heads to
foreign countries for rituals.”
Ahmed, as AbdulWaheed told Aso Chronicle, said five
people out of the 45 captured, would be released
as“killing them would boomerang but they warned the
said people not to utter ‘something’ about all what
they have seen,” adding that if they do, they will go
mad.
On the third day, in the midnight, he said the execution
started. “They started calling names, according to
numbers, after we were told to be on a queue. When
one’s name is called, the person would rest his head
on a big board. There is a man standing by the board,
if the man should raise his hand and bring it down, I do
not know if it is knife or cutlass, it will just come down
and you will just see that the person’s head had fallen
off.”
AbdulWaheed recounted that the slain body is left on
the board where the blood is collected in a very big
container under the board after which the body is
removed and deposited elsewhere with the head placed
at the feet of the boss.
Then, gradually, it got to his turn, he said. “I was the
42nd person to be killed, after 40 people were killed
because one person was released. The man that is
beheading people now asked me where I was coming
from and I said, Zaria but he said no, that I am from
Tunga Maje and that I am just schooling in Zaria. He
said that I am teaching some students Arabic in an
uncompleted mosque, I said yes. He told me that I
used to wear apron in the mosque and I said yes. He
told me I am a good boy and that they are not going to
kill me because they cannot use my blood. He called
one man to bring me food but I did not eat, I told them
I was satisfied. The man said but we were not given
food, and I replied him that, my God has been feeding
me.”
AbdulWaheed said he was given his cloth, which he
wore, his bag was returned to him while he was told to
leave. “I replied that I did not know where to go. He
now touched my body and I now found myself near one
mosque in the midnight.”
AbdulWaheed said at first, he did not know where he
found himself but he was happy to have escaped the
sharp blade of the executioners. It was in the midnight,
so he had to wait till morning when after the early
morning prayers, he approached a man to enquire
about his location. He said: “The first man I asked
thought I was mad, seeing someone like me asking
about where he was with an unshaved hair, and he
angrily walked away.”
So also were other people that he approached until a
boy told him that the name of the place is Tafa, Niger
State, then he called his relatives, who later picked him
up.
While describing the place he was held captive,
AbdulWaheed said it was very big and one could see
the walls or fence. He said: “It is only at night that you
can see people. It is very large and people are many,
there are women who are more than 100. They kill
people daily. According to what they said, people
would only stay there for three days, before they get
killed, when I got there on Monday, some people were
killed.”
He said instead of being killed, women are used in the
baby factory. “The boss told us that the women would
be giving birth, and the babies would be used to make
money.”
On being held hostage as a result of his generousity,
AbdulWaheed replied: “God has said that will happen to
me because before the man came, I had called a
motorcyclist, but we did not settle because of N20. I
was waiting for another motorcyclist, when this very
old man approached me and I gave him the money that
I could not give to the motorcyclist.”
He, however, implored residents to be careful of how
they give alms. Said he: “Some of the beggars are
doing it without a pure intention, they are doing it in
order to get someone, and you will see someone and
think he is truly a beggar, but he is not with a good
intention. I felt angry because we are all human beings
but I have to thank God for giving me the opportunity
to return to tell the story because it is like someone
who saw his grave but God delivered him.
I saw it with my eyes when they were cutting human’s
head, I used to see it on television, but I saw it with
my eyes. It is not something I would want anybody to
go through.”
Saliu Na-Annabi, the 67-year-old father of
AbdulWaheed could not hide his joy over the
appearance of his son. “I was miserable, I could not
eat and sleep when I got the news of his
disappearance, that he did not get to school and he
could not be reached,” he said.
Saliu, who spoke through an interpreter, said just as he
was happy to hear from his son, when he called while
in captivity, the news he got saddened his heart and
increased his fears.
“The only thing I could do was to pray,” he said.
The assistant Imam of the Tunga Maje Central Mosque,
where AbdulWaheed teaches Arabic, Mohammed Kabir
Ishaq, advised residents to always be steadfast in their
service to Allah as one cannot say which of the
services would be rewarded by Allah and rescue them
from trouble.
He strongly spoke against begging, saying: “It is not
allowed in Islam to be going round and be begging.
Islam also condemns killing people, Muslims and non-
Muslims. Islam does not allow anybody to take the life
of somebody.”
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