My name is Nandi Micah, I am from Mangu but married in Kwambli. I am 25 years old and I have three children. My husband is here in Mangu. We are living in one room we rented here in Rampia area of Mangu town.
We were on the farm one morning when we see herders, their cattle and families passing by. My husband and some other persons went and asked them where they were doing. We didn’t know that people have been killed. No body called to tell us about the incident. We went to the farm, and they came and met us on the farm.
They started shooting guns. It was in the morning around 9AM. Around 10AM, the shootings became worst. We started bending down to evade stray bullets. Then my husband said we should go home, and we did. A while later, we saw them coming on motorcycles fully armed. They were large in number. Our community said we shouldn’t run, that there is conflict in Mangu, so where are we going to. We fell silent. Then our husbands went to the back of the house with machetes and sticks.
The armed men came with petrol and burnt our houses with our foods and belongings. We were running with my father-in-law, but he couldn’t run so we had to leave him behind and they killed him. He said we should leave him since he was an old man, that it is better we escape.
We couldn’t bring anything with us, and about 10 of our people were killed. We were running, praying God saves us and our families. When we crossed a river, we saw the herders with sticks in their hands but they didn’t touch us so we run past them. After 3 hours of running and walking, we arrived here.
When we arrived in this camp, my elder brothers said we would not continue staying in these classrooms. They gave us ten thousand naira and we used it to rent one room where we are now living. They are the ones feeding us. We hardly get anything when we come to this camp.
Presently, we don’t have what to eat. We are waiting, hoping food will be distributed so we can have something to eat. We also are not well. Today, we came to MSF and they gave us drugs. We also work on people’s farm to earn money for food. We are usually idle except on days when we are called to work on the farmer for money.