"We Packed Human Flesh Like Goat Meats" - Abuja Streets Sweepers

Fresh reports from The Sun says that one Mrs Rebecca Sunday, a street sweeper in Nyanya, Abuja packed hipped human bodies, still dripping of blood with her bare hands while on duty.

Apparently, when she got the job seven years ago, she didn't expect packing human bodies to be part of her sweeping and cleaning duties.


What actually caused this was the bomb blast that occurred in Nyanya, Abuja on the 14th of April which ripped apart and scattered human bodies here and there.

Mrs Sunday was informed that she had been tasked to clean the area alongside one of her colleagues. On hearing this, she was sad but prayed to God before she commenced the day's work.

She said,

“I picked human flesh like goat meat sold in the market. goat meat is even better because the butcher will sell the quantity you want based on the buyer’s order and  pocket.”  

“My colleagues and I picked human hands, foot, neck, intestine, just name it. I picked them and dropped them in the bin bag given to me. After I had gathered the human parts to a certain quantity I would take the bag to the central point. “I saw blood, fresh human blood and packed sand to cover it.” 

“I saw something with these eyes. If any prophet had prophesied to me that I would one day pack human flesh with my hands, I would have told him he is a prophet of doom since I’m not a medical personnel, either do I work in the hospital. But when it happened, I had no choice but to do my job.” 

“I am not a nurse or cleaner in a hospital, but all the same I had to do it. It was not easy at all, but I had to do it and by the time I finished, I couldn’t do anything with myself.”

With tears in her eyes, she continued,

“So, many things ran through my mind. I cannot start explaining to you now how bad I felt.I have been hearing about how Boko Haram attack and kill innocent  people , I never knew that one day I will come face-to-face with that. 

“It  was when the first  Nyanya, bomb blast happened that I  had better appreciation of what people in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states have been  going through.
“All I will have to say now is to pray that God will, in his infinite mercies, protect Nigeria from Boko Haram members. From what I saw, it is only God that can get out of this terrorists trouble”

Mrs Helen Elias who is a mother of four and her colleague also spoke of the incident. According to her, the second blast was like a nightmare although she claimed she didn't witness the first blast.

Mrs, Elias, said even when her nose was covered, the stench of blood that oozed from the scene of the incident was so unbearable.

Mrs Elias said,

“After the thing happened in the night, they called us in the morning to assemble at Nyanya, to work there. We got there early but had to wait to enable the soldiers and other security agents rid the place of any bomb. It was after the security personnel certified the place okay that our supervisor asked us to start sweeping. 

“While sweeping, I packed some piece of flesh as if I was packing cow meat. It was really a bad sight, I have never seen a thing like that before” 

“At first I was afraid to touch or pick  up those  pieces of flesh. They were scattered all over the place. However, I summoned courage and started doing that when  I saw my colleagues  doing it. I even saw one of my colleagues picking up human palm that was chopped off from the wrist area.

“Kai, this thing is too much, government should try and do something to end this kind of thing. These  Boko -haram people are just out to kill poor people, if not why would they come to Nyanya, where only poor people live”.

Despite the horrible and heart-wrenching incident, both women have no plans to quit their jobs instead they pray another bomb doesn't go off again in the country.

“Every Nigerian must pray that this stops. It is bad killing people like goats, even goats are not killed in that manner”, said Mrs Sunday.