The
Virus is a near perfect beta of a doomsday Virus. Even the most hard-line
sceptics have ended up dumbfound by just how profoundly serious Covid-19 is as
a survivalist organism that is here to accomplish its apocalyptic mission.
Though many medical experts have since been pressured, pressed and forced to
promise a vaccine and possible cure within the next few months to a year; the
truth is that the threat is clearly unprecedented.
In
my case I went to sleep in a world where my priority was to deliver food and
medical aid to my parents in Kaduna Prison; Only to wake up and realize that
there was an even larger number of factors in play. I slept knowing full well
that it was an uphill battle against the entire regime of Major-General-Buhari
and his army of punitive henchmen; to all of a sudden be confronted by a Diablo
ex-Machina; courtesy of the novel corona virus AKA Covid-19.
Now
all visits to prison by anyone and everyone were effectively and strictly
forbidden. I understood and reasoned that it was the proper measure to prevent
contagion of this clearly deadly disease. The last thing I would want is to be
a part of what makes my already sickly parents sicker; or worse.
In
spite of the fact that I had completed all arrangements to have Doctors visit
both my parents in Kaduna Prison, in order to provide them with relief for
their existing medical conditions due to age and a plethora of wounds they
sustained during the attack and subsequent ransacking of our home by the
Nigerian Army. All of which have all gone untreated during the past five years.
I
still thought and reasoned that a quarantine of the entire area was the best
measure possible in the short term, considering the existing circumstances. As
a result of this I made all the necessary apologies to cancel appointments with
all the doctors and hospitals, to ensure that the quarantine in Kaduna Prison
will hold and be maintained. I then did all in my power to send masks, hand
sanitizers, gloves, soap and vitamins. All in an effort to stay safe and keep
everyone safe.
I
have now since been jolted out of the stupor of perceived safety by terrible
news. There has been a violent incident inside Kaduna Prison, that has rendered
my memory of the Zaria Massacre of 2015 raw. As the harrowing sounds of another
rampage of gun fire was heard from Kaduna Prison, where my parents are
currently being detained.
All
my frantic calls to the Controller of Prisons and his Deputy were not answered,
as the sounds of gun fire continued to rage. All my efforts to learn what was
really going on failed. I have however been able to learn a few things through
the few answered calls. All of them agree on the following.
1.
There has been a surge of Covid-19 symptomatic prisoners in
Kaduna Prison.
2.
Staff of the Prison Clinic have been avoiding 3 symptomatic
prisoners particularly.
3.
Three of them were removed and one was returned on Tuesday.
4.
A number of Prisoners strongly objected to the re-introduction of
the prisoners.
5.
The Prison Staff tried to calm things down by trying to reason
with them.
6.
The Prison’s armed squad were then deployed, to supress an
alleged prison break.
7.
After a period of Automatic fire in the air and on target, calm
was restored.
8.
The prisoners suspected of Covid-19 are among those reported shot
and killed.
9.
Bullet canisters were still littered all over the place 3 hours
later.
10.
Many of the Kaduna prison staff are visibly injured, some with serious
injuries.
11.
A significant number of the injured staff were seen walking around in
blood-soaked uniforms.
12.
So called normalcy has been enforced, and returned at an unknown cost.
The
fact remains that the highly crowded, unsanitary conditions of Kaduna Prison
remains a highly contagious environment, that is no place for my vulnerable
mother and father, both of whom are above 50 years of age. Both of whom are
un-healthy, both of whom are suffering from an unprecedented number of health
issues that have remained untreated and unattended.
Due
to a determination by the regime of Heil! Major-General Buhari and his now
Contagious Governor El-Rufai and their army of undertakers. It is unclear what
is really going on at the site of all the intense gunfire that was heard in
Kaduna Prison. Aside from the above stated facts, I can say no more.
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