The keke comes to a halt in front of a local park. I step down and hand over N600 to the driver. As he drives off, i survey my surroundings, take out my phone and glance at the time. This slender, dark skinned youth, with a scraggy beard, approaches me, his face adorned with scarring similar to the Gombo tribal markings. He is sucking on a popular, locally made, sachet herbal drink. He also has a limp. 
Abuja abi? He mutters and before i bring myself to nod he quickly lifts my box and carries it while i follow closely behind as we head towards a 12 seater bus which at its rear end, i notice a small cluster of professional hands-men who seem like they've mastered the art of onloading travel luggage, no matter how much it may be. They quickly allocate a small space where my box slots in perfectly. I pay, take my seat and barely realize when the journey begins as I'm carried away by my engagement with FIFA 23.
Even though i had my head downwards and my earplugs on, I could still hear two guys to my left, discussing about their ordeal with Palmpay loan recovery agents, while the man sitting in front of me had gotten up and begun to preach. What seemed like an hour had gone by, and just as i raise my head, take out the plugs from one ear, i hear the driver curse, and suddenly step on the brakes. 
All sorts of religious exclamations, juxtaposed in screams and cries of people, envelope the air. I reach firmly for the metallic frame of the seat in front of me as the car swerves to the right, veers off a median strip, crashes into a stone which tips the right wheel over and it begins to summersault. I close my eyes and pray my last. The car spins one final time and comes crashing to a stop. Everything's a blur, my body goes numb and no matter how much I try to move... I can't. 
I hear voices of first responders and maybe after all, this isn't the end.
From the corner of my now bloodshot eye, I catch a tiny glimpse of an axe, but non of it makes sense cause slowly, everywhere turns pitch black.

A few hours after, the breaking news on the media captioned "Fatal accident claims 11 on Lafia-Abuja expressway". 

One hundred & thirty three days, and no less than three surgeries later, the headline on a popular Nigerian daily is "One survivor from fatal crash that claimed 11".

I am He!