1.You and your family can’t sleep.
2.You can’t go to Work or attend to your businesses.
3.Your Children can’t go to school.
4.The Markets have to close.
5.There will be no enough food as everyone survive on rations.
6.Criminals will operate freely,especially when the Prison is hit and they all escape.
7.The sounds of Bomb blast,Guns and Jets over the sky terrifies you and your Children.
8.Women and Girls faces the possibility sexual molestation.
9.You will have to live your home and relocate to Bomb shelters or Military camps where you have to queue for food and the use of the lavatories.
10.Everything that belongs to you will no more belong you until the war is over.
11.If the war prolongs,armed gang militias will take control of neighborhoods and you’ll be under their control.
12.The safest place is your neighboring country and you’ll have to trek to reach the border because there will be no private or public transport.
13.It doesn’t matter who is right or wrong or whatever side you support,everyone lives is in danger.
14.There will be no police station and no court and no law and you’ll have to live on luck and at the mercy of gangs.
15.Things you take for granted like Bread and Water will become your Gold and Diamond.
16.Warlords don’t tolerate freedom of expression and they don’t have prison;they’ll just execute anyone who post any criticism online if at all there is still telecom services.
17.Day will be like night and Night will be like day.
18.You will lose interest in anything other than the return of peace.
19.You will pray every second like you’ve never done before.
20.Apart from the God you worship,your other gods will be UNHCR,WFP,UNICEF,Red Cross,Red Crescent,Oxfarm,Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Amnesty International.
21.After many have died,everything destroyed and lives shattered it’ll still be about dialogue to peace.
SHARING ONE LOAF OF BREAD AND A BOTTLE OF WATER WITH YOUR FAMILY IN A REFUGEE CAMP IS JUST ONE REPERCUSSION OF WAR.
PEACE IS PRICELESS.
NB: Shehu Sani was a former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly.
