As residents of Maiduguri settle to normalcy after multiple explosions rocked the state capital

As residents of Maiduguri settle to normalcy after multiple explosions rocked the state capital, resulting in the dead of 16 people with many injured, some of the 47 survivors recounted their experiences to The PUNCH on Wednesday.

According to 75-year-old Kaka Mallam, a resident of Adam Kolo, one of the areas where the explosions occurred, he was seated very close to a mosque around 6pm when he began to hear the explosions and within some splinter of seconds, something hit him on his leg.

Mallam recalled that as he was about to crawl into the mosque, he felt something hit him again, this time, in his lower abdomen.

“My neighbours from all around came to my rescue. They brought me to the hospital after the whole situation became calm,” he added.

Kaka Mallam, a widower with 14 children, earns his daily bread from petty trading.

“I came back from my petty trading and went straight to the mosque, did my ablution, waiting to perform the ishaa sallah before heading home; then the explosions happened.

I sustained injuries on my leg and my buttocks. The governor came in last night at 10 pm and gave me N50,000,” Mallam added.

Another victim, 30-year-old Mohammed Umar, an ND student of Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, was hit by a metal on his knee and cannot move his leg at the moment.