Some people, led by a former member of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Lukman Adigun, had gone to Maiduguri to purchase rams to be sold for the festival when the tragedy occurred.
It was only Adigun, however, who lived to tell the story, as those who accompanied him on the trip from Lagos were slaughtered by members of the Boko Haram.
Adigun, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune in the house of one of his friends in Ibadan, where he was recovering from shock, narrated how the incident occurred.
“We left Ibadan on Wednesday at about 12.00 a.m and got to Damaturu on Friday morning. There was curfew in Potiskum. So, we slept there. We arrived Maiduguri at about 9.00 a.m.
“My boy, Abdullai Fasasi, went to Ngom in Marfa Local Government Area, to collect money from the bank. We were in the market haggling for the rams we wanted to buy at around 1.28 p.m when we heard gunshots.
“It was heavy. I ran away and believed my friend, Lukman Akintemi and the rest of my boys had also escaped. We didn’t know that the assailants were beside them as they were trading.
He, however, told us that the parents of his assistant, Abdullahi, rejected the idea that his remains be brought to their house in Sango. They were said to have requested that the boy be buried in Maidiguri.
“We buried him at the cemetery on University of Maiduguri road. The other man, Akinyemi, was buried on Sunday in Ibadan. Another victim is from Lagos. In all, we lost five ram traders.”
The divisional police officer of Marfa, where the incident was reported, Shansudeen Yusuf, could not be reached at the time of filing this report, as he did not pick calls put through to his phone.
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