In
the early hours of Monday, armed robbers stormed the Calabar Christmas
Village in Cross River State, while Kiss Daniel was performing.
It
could not be confirmed if anyone was killed in the incident, but it was
learnt that several people were stabbed. It was reported that some
others, who sustained gunshot injuries, had been hospitalized.People
usually pay rent to the state government to operate shops in the
village for the one-month (December 1-December 31) end of year
activities. The incident occurred just after midnight while the artiste
was performing. . A shop owner, who sold food at the village,
Glory Akpan, said: “I was wounded. Some boys came into the village and
tried to rob that guy, who sings “Oya talk to me o Mama” (Kiss Daniel),
while he was performing.
They threw bottles and other
dangerous objects at him. They later brought out guns and began to shoot
sporadically. The robbers attacked him and removed his clothes. They
would have killed him. I don’t know how he survived that night.
There
were thousands of people in the Christmas Village and the situation
caused pandemonium. They broke everything in my shop. They carried all
my money and robbed many shops. Our chairs were broken.
Everybody
ran helter-skelter. Cars were smashed. They broke some cars to steal
from them. At a point, the lights went off and I thought I was going to
die. Someone even stole my pot of melon soup, which was on fire." via: instablog
