According to reports, A 52-year old indigene of Benue State from
Buruku local government, Pastor Simon Abe Mashika has been living with a
bullet that has been inside his skull for 14 years now. This happened
between a random shooting between the Police and armed Robbers during a
Robbery incidence that occurred on Katsina Ala street on the 7th day of
June 2004.
Pastor Simon, was a staff of NEPA and on that fateful day, he had closed from his church when he got a call that there was a problem at a transformer that is situated at Katsina-Ala street, he and a friend/colleague, Mr. T, went to check what the fault was. They had finished fixing the fault and were on their way back home when they ran into these robbers.
The police were all alerted and they responded. In the course of the exchange of their bullets which ensued afterward, Pastor Simon got hit by one of the bullets. The bullet went through his left ear and went straight into his brain.
He was rushed to Madonna hospital where he was referred to Memfys Hospital for Neurosurgery in Enugu, he went there and it was conferred by a CT scan that the bullet was resting in his skull. He was told a surgery at that time was a grave risk to his life and also the hospital was not sufficiently equipped to have one at that time successfully.
He was placed on medications which cost at least N5000 a week and was asked to return to the hospital to be checked regularly. His wife told me they couldn’t continue with both due to lack of funds, Since he was no longer working at the time, it was difficult to keep up with it so they stopped at some point.
He had lived with the bullet in his Skull for 14 good years now. He suffered partial deafness and his speech is impaired since then and can only communicate by gestures and writing on a paper now using his left hand to learn since the incidence since his right side is paralyzed all because of the bullet. According to reports, Pastor Simon needs another CT Scan to ascertain the position of the bullet and then the surgery to make him better.
Pastor Simon, was a staff of NEPA and on that fateful day, he had closed from his church when he got a call that there was a problem at a transformer that is situated at Katsina-Ala street, he and a friend/colleague, Mr. T, went to check what the fault was. They had finished fixing the fault and were on their way back home when they ran into these robbers.
The police were all alerted and they responded. In the course of the exchange of their bullets which ensued afterward, Pastor Simon got hit by one of the bullets. The bullet went through his left ear and went straight into his brain.
He was rushed to Madonna hospital where he was referred to Memfys Hospital for Neurosurgery in Enugu, he went there and it was conferred by a CT scan that the bullet was resting in his skull. He was told a surgery at that time was a grave risk to his life and also the hospital was not sufficiently equipped to have one at that time successfully.
He was placed on medications which cost at least N5000 a week and was asked to return to the hospital to be checked regularly. His wife told me they couldn’t continue with both due to lack of funds, Since he was no longer working at the time, it was difficult to keep up with it so they stopped at some point.
He had lived with the bullet in his Skull for 14 good years now. He suffered partial deafness and his speech is impaired since then and can only communicate by gestures and writing on a paper now using his left hand to learn since the incidence since his right side is paralyzed all because of the bullet. According to reports, Pastor Simon needs another CT Scan to ascertain the position of the bullet and then the surgery to make him better.
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