informant001:
A man identified as Okeme Arome Romey has narrated how he escaped death after being confronted by armed robbers on his way to Abuja from Kaduna state. Read what he shared below;

On the seventeenth of May in the year of our Lord two thousand and seventeen, at about 6.20pm, I cheated death...yet again.

I had just spoken with Arc. Felix and hung up with a wry smile that didn't go just too soon. It's being a while I saw the young man. I was headed to Abuja from Kaduna in a public car, there was a gentleman who sat next to my left engrossed in his phone and I peeped and he let me in on what he was watching. I smiled because I had seen the funny video before.

I focused on the journey proper as we drove some 20-30min after taking off, I realized we were at a village called Rijanna and I let my fibers and muscles relax as we had some 1-2hrs more of driving to do. Just as I made to relax, I caught a glimpse of a car parked in the distance by the side of the road with some rough looking men, about 5, wearing military camouflage tops and other trousers wielding guns, I recognized a locally made pistol and some bigger AK47 rifles.

They were obviously the Highwaymen. This mental calculations took only a few seconds to register and I whispered aloud, Robbers! They were robbing the occupants of the vehicle as I saw them all seated on the ground distraught. We had unfortunately ran into them, one of them started beckoning at us to come closer, we were some 50-100meters away, so i asked the driver to reverse the car and try to escape. He obliged.

As the car screeched to retreat, one of the robbers launched after us, he pointed his gun at the vehicle and squeezed the trigger, there were rain of bullets digging their way through the thick body of the car with ease, wheel screen shattered and glasses splintered hither and thither. I was under the illusion that we had escaped when out of the blues three other colleagues of theirs emerged from the bush behind us in a commando style with AK 47s and opened fire on the car, I was sitting just directly where the car was taking fire. The driver opened his door and jumped out, the passenger at the extreme left of me behind the driver opened his door also and we began pouring out.

Once outside, we made for the trough on the side of the road in an attempt to escape to the other carriage of the road leading cars from Abuja to Kaduna. The robbers didn't give up just yet, they ran after us and kept shooting, bullets bounced off the ground close to my feet and flew past my side, I missed a step and fell, picked myself up and commenced running again. It was obvious my mind ran faster than my legs. I kept the motivation going by saying to me, " breathe easy and run for it, you haven't been hit". To the glory of God alone, I made it to the other side of the road and kept running while flagging cars down. I was finally lucky to get one which stopped, whisked me away to some 2-3 km from the site of the action where I met the police preparing to respond. They had obviously heard the shots and noticed the long queue building up on the highway.

As I was running I could see from the corner of my eyes how cars were trying hard to turn around, some left their cars in the middle of the road and jumped out, passengers were pouring out through windows and skedaddling, people were falling off as others took cover in the bushes. It was a chaotic sight.

CONTINUE BELOW;

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/05/i-cheated-death-yet-again-man-who-was.html

thank God for life

Benekruku:


Thanks man!'

Na hin e con write long story like that?

He was describing the gun they shot him with. I think i saw awka made.... Read it first and confirm

thank God.

What do you expect from the zological republic?

Run by class of 1966 old baboons, of cos they wont be as current and fast thinking like governor of lagos state.
Police no get fuel on high way, not even paid well, give us state police no way.

All glory to God. Felt shills while reading it. May God deliver us from evil occurrences.

Our government need to ask pole who knows about security and let us live in peace a drone with high technology camera will really help ,let us have lots on our highways ,by the way do u know a Nigerian build top drone in the US ,

Victorakats:
You didn't cheat death, God saved you!

Please return all glory to Him... It's not by your wisdom but by God's mercy!

Thank God for saving you though!

So did he say its by his wisdom? the young man gave all glory to God from the begining of his story to d end, he actually cheated death afterall, ooh yes he did.

The same road I plied today on my way to Minna. God I thank you o and I also thank you for the Op.
Please continue to protect us in this jungle

foolish country

fadafuqer:
Surely Allah hasn't willed your death yet.......there's nothing like untimely death.....God created you and he decides when u die...every soul shall taste death whether early or late nothing like untimely death!

Na you sabi. He has given his testimony.

[/b] 3 came out from the back with AK47 in a commando style [b]
Guy you can tell stories with jokes.
Are you sure village bros never get involve?

Quickly go make restitution to any body you have disposed of and straighten ur ways.... 3 is a celestial number ooh

newyorks:
its never ur time.

Not his time.

Nice use of language @ Op. Thank God for the gift of your life. Something urgently needs to be done concerning the security and safety of that road. especially now that corpers would be passing through that axis to and fro camp.

and the robbers are ipods. these forigners are destroying our country

Alitair:
Tiri gbosa for ur guardian angel.

If you stumble upon robbers on the highway and they haven't blocked the road ahead of you, your best chance is to floor your accelerator and hope for the best. Otherwise just stop and give them what you have got.


Reversing is not an option as they normally anticipate this move and mount guys towards to back waiting.

I only travel by road in Nigeria and I have been hello lucky so far. My rules for travelling within Nigeria by road is to always make sure that there is a vehicle Atleast 20 - 30 meters ahead of me. I call that vehicle my spotter. If the vehicle breaks or reacts funny, I slow down assess the situation and then take action as necessary. Thankfully so far all I have witnessed are several accidents (yeah they happened live) but no robbery.

A friend of mine happened upon robbers in Delta state one time. He was just coming out of a bend when he saw them and one was dragging a big log of wood across the highway. Thankfully he hadn't yet covered the entire road and there was still an opening so my friend floored his accelerator and actually hit the guy pulling the log as he was maneuvering the blockade. His car was quite damaged but he didn't even bother. They opened fire on him but he was gone.

MORE LIKE A JOURNALIST WRITE-UP. THANK GOD FOR YOUR NARROW ESCAPE.

On Angels feet,he follow d track,i praise God it can only be Him.

That was how they opened fire on our car yesterday o, I'm still in shock till this minute and haven't slept or eaten since last night.

fadafuqer:
Surely Allah hasn't willed your death yet.......there's nothing like untimely death.....God created you and he decides when u die...every soul shall taste death whether early or late nothing like untimely death!

Please stop this. It is a lie from the pit of hell. Satan cut people life short. God never intends anyone die young. Our inability to perfectly see into the mind of God for our lives and faithfully follow through gives satan chance to do man a lot of harm. The closer you are to God and the clearer you can hear from him, the safer you live through life. He guides and leads you away from danger, if you are by chance caught in it, he provides escape route. It all depends on how obedient you are. It is why the scripture says "Obedience is better than sacrifice". God does not kill!!!

that Abuja Kaduna is a dead trap. I also escaped them two months ago while they have gunned down 3 people. blood splashed on the roads & cars. when I saw mobile police with AK47, I said my last prayers but thank God it was really police not robbers which had killed those guys.

my advice, if you are passing through kaduna-Abuja road, pls leave from 8-5pm. that place is death trap

This man is obviously intelligent. He writes Professionally

James Hadley Chase can't describe d scene better than u....

You can never cheat death.

Being on that road from 6:30pm is scary,wonder why some still risk it. tales of bullets and hitting of the sticks of herdsmen.
Be on that road from 7am to 5:30pm only aside that goodluck trying.
It will take 20-30mins for the police stationed on each of those points to respond to an actual distress due to the nature of the hits on that road ,stay safe guys

It's this same route that my Boss wants me to ply so as to pick a patient for him from KD.

Him no see me!

Do you serve the lord of light?

Who took d picture of him at d robbery sence?