Jurist escapes death as soldier fires at her car

But for sheer luck, one of the High Court judges in Kaduna state and her son would been victims of a soldier’s bullets in protecting ‘very important personalities’ yesterday in Kaduna town as the soldier opened fire on the car in which the jurist was travelling.
Blueprint gathered that the jurist, Justice Hajara Gwadah, was on her way to church with her son, who was driving her when the incident occurred.

The statement signed by her husband, Barrister Bitrus Gwadah, said:
“Just a little past 9 in the morning on August 31, 2014, my wife and son were shot at, by a soldier in full Nigerian army fatigue, at the junction of Ali Akilu and Alkali roads by SCOA, in Kaduna metropolis,

Kaduna State. My wife, Justice Hajara Gwadah and son, Saminu Gwadah, were on their way to church.
“According to the account given by my wife and son, my son was driving, and in front was a civilian car which was itself following a jeep/Toyota hillux full of armed army personnel. My son, as were the two vehicles in front of him, was slowing down for traffic control.

Suddenly, he saw a soldier in the open jeep, which was beginning to turn into Alkali road, cock his gun and shot at him. Thoroughly shaken, he guided the car to the side, missing a few collisions to his right. They noticed smoke from the bonnet of their car. At the same time the vehicle carrying the soldiers had parked on Alkali road and two armed soldiers in battle mode approached them and shouted: “you were too close! Don’t try it again.  Then they went back to their jeep and drove off.”
Gwadah added: “Thank God the car took the bullet, and mercifully God averted something worse.”
The spokesman of 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Col. Usman Abdul, could be not reached for comments.