dragan:
Did this cuŋt just compared Northern Kaduna to Afghanistan And South Kaduna to Jerusalem

Hell, what exactly is this ldiots point anyway? aside from insulting anything North that is....

I actually pretended i didn't see that. That alone shows the true intention of the writer.

The op is very much correct. I have spent almost all my life in kaduna, in both sides of the divide. My parents are presently residing in a government owned staff quarters somewhere in kawo, having moved from Romi, new extension.

Southern kaduna is picking up, trying to catch up with the development in the north. For every step I take in northern kaduna, I do with fear, anxiety and cautiousness. It's a totally different feeling when I cross the divide.

Southern kaduna is Jerusalem. It feels like it. The premotion of bad things to come isn't as thick as you have it up north.

I've stayed in kaduna since 1991, graduated from Zaria even. I've seen it all, felt it all, experienced it all.

Kaduna was a place to be. It was a haven. It's all gone though, most of it, all Thanks to the 'other side'.

The so called sharia riot was not riot but war.

The then northern governors introduced fake sharia and caused many many people lost their lifes for nothing.

Still cant forget my NYSC service year in Kaura LGA, South Kaduna (2011), it was awesome! Very hospitable people.
I retired back to Lagos 3 months after i got my discharge certificate and i still communicate with my friends turned families in there.
The only regret i had was the Cashflow scam i got myself involved in but i thank God i'm alive and still making a lotta money. :-)

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