Just
as one may be wondering about the possible assault that could be carried out on
a solid gigantic rock like the Zuma Rock in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger
State, near the FCT, we are smiling in telling the story of how actually the
rock was attacked in five days ago. This strange attack resulted into a heavy
bang sound that startled the military personnel stationed at a sentry near the
rock on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.
The current harmattan season
especially that in the northern part of the country has suddenly made the
weather and the atmospheric conditions in certain parts of Nigeria unfriendly
and uncomfortable for both the humans, other animals, plants and even the
rocks. The adverse effect of the harmattan has heated hard on both the animate
and the inanimate objects and thereby resulted in several abnormalities. These abnormalities
did not skip the grip of the famous Zuma Rock located on the outskirt and northwards
of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. This abnormal weather effect has, at the
moment, left a deep crack like a scar in denting the normal surface of the
famous rock. Several people especially those that have not been to the location
of this rock for about two weeks, have come to see this sudden crack as an
abnormally natural assault on the rock.
A mere sight of this crack
on the rock from a distance will misconstrue the view of the onlooker as if a
sturdy thunder has hit the surface of the rock and peel off its coat like the
bark of a tree. The new surface of the rock now renders the entirety of the
rock in defacement. It is something abnormal to the position and nature of the
gigantic rock. No one has ever witnessed anything of this kind happened to or
around Zuma Rock in ages. A wide scar on a sturdy rock as Zuma Rock is worth a
tourist attraction and sightseeing. If not for the presence of the soldiers
stationed closed to the rock, the whole scenario of attack would have still
remained a puzzle or a sorcery intuition till now. The soldiers were there when
the heavy bang occurred and they witnessed all that happened, and thereby
disseminated this information of the strange occurrence to inquirers and spectators
who later came to witness the new outlook of the rock on Monday this week.
According to an eyewitness, in
the cool evening of Sunday this week, a terrible and weird breeze commenced an
offensive blow around the rock. It was as if a heavy downpour was about to occur
in that vicinity and which is so strange to the Abuja and environs topography.
Rainfall around Abuja in November will be seen as another side of the
dilapidation of the ozone layer in the common term of ‘Climate Change’. Even
the aspiration or anticipation for rain while heavy breeze is in session is
unimaginable in the month of November in Abuja and environs. If it is area like
Calabar, Warri, Port Harcourt or Benin City etc, it well comprehended as those
areas fall under the zone of Tropical Rain Forest and Swamps regions. Therefore,
the soldiers watched in perplexity and apprehension as the breeze exhibited its
fancy of hostility on the huge rock to dismember its surface..
First, the weird wind
started like a whirlwind and later transformed into a descending breeze shattering
pebbles and particles everywhere. Thereafter, the wave of the wind started
hitting hard on the body of the rock, then withdrew awhile and returned over
and over again. This action repeatedly occurred in a scenario of somewhat
mystical and supernatural. At every hit of the somewhat windstorm on the
surface of the rock, a crack is resulted, until the heaviest hit pulled down a
portion on the surface of the centre rock and prior to a heavy bang as if a
thunderstorm hit hard on a hard object’s surface. Thereafter, other parts of
the rock shook to its nerve as if a bomb blast just occurred on its summit on a
descending motion. Particles from the rock splashed around and across the bush
to a distance of about one hundred metres. The manner which the part of the
rock pulled off the main body made it look like a long suffocation which the
rock had embedded within its fold and could abstractly be yearning to discard
or shake it off as burden. Despite the hit and bang sound resulted from the
wind storm, it is still astonishing to cap it that a rock as sturdy as Zuma
Rock could just had its wholesome of a body defaced so easily whereas such fate
had met some other smaller and weaker rocks without leaving any impact as
defaced scar on them.
In the morning of Monday, on
a mood of eccentric and obfuscated inquisition, motorists who normally ply the
route of either Abuja-Kaduna Expressway or those on shorter route of Suleja
(Kaduna Road)-Abuja routine, had to stop over to have a sightsee of the new
face of Zuma Rock. In a puzzled mood, nobody was certain about what actually
happened to the rock that could result into such defacement. As it was, the only
possible sort of information could only have been received from the soldiers on
the sentry opposite the rock, but nobody was willing to engage them (soldiers)
as bloody civilian mantra on every soldier lip may attract some sort of
ill-treatment from the soldiers. For this, the first set of people that
witnessed the Zuma Rock defaced surface left without any certainty or knowledge
of what had transpired earlier to render the rock unto its current facial
appearance. The soldiers on their own realised that the more people came to see
the rock and without any authentic narration or explanation as related to the
incidence from any eyewitness could result to misleading stories of rumours and
gossips to the public. Hence, one of them walked down to the where the second
set of inspecting viewers where busying doing their tourist view, and explained
to them what actually happened. He ended his story by saying: “...me, this kind breeze wey fit pull down part
of this kind big rock no look ordinary to me ooo”. And that was how the incidence of the previous
night breeze pervaded and the rumours that could have emanated from the
different lips of witnesses was rendered moribund. As anticipated, people could
have gone to the news media or social media to claim that: ‘Zuma Rock has been attacked by Boko Haram or
spirits!’ Just as it is currently witnessed that any information is now
easily disseminated to Nigerians and the entire world in effect to score a
cheap political relevance even when it is obvious that such information can
never have existed in the real sense of human norms and related occurrences.
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