@FastTractor - curfews cause delays June 19, 2012
Below is the information I posted on FaceBook today.
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I had been hoping for news about Mr Shinggu yesterday. It was the day to make the insurance payment for the tractor. Making that payment should be the last hurdle before the tractor is released to Fantsuam Foundation.
This afternoon I had a phone call from Cass (for more about Cass see Next steps in getting the tractor ). When I asked him if he had news he mentioned some major news that I had somehow missed. There had been more bombs. This time in Kaduna. There is a curfew, not just in the city of Kaduna, but elsewhere in Kaduna State. Cass says people cannot leave their homes - not even to go to buy food.
(Todays updates - in The Vanguard - 19 June 2012 - Nigeria: Kaduna Church Blast/ Reprisals - Death Toll Rises to 68 and BBC news - Nigeria's Boko Haram: Damaturu and Kaduna under curfew - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18508092 )
Soon afterwards John Dada of Fantsuam Foundation contacted me on Skype (typed). The connection dropped from time to time and he was running short of power - but we managed to exchange some news - below is part of our conversation (NEPA is grid electricity supply):
John said: We are now under 24hrs curfew as a result of the church bomb blasts of last sunday in Zaria and Kaduna. Shinggu was in Kaduna to follow up the FastTractor and is now stranded there, but safe..... Its raining heavily at the moment and I am using my modem for connection. My laptop battery will lst another 10 minutes: there's no NEPA tonite.
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