FOR THE LOVE OF GOD by Amadi Ikechukwu Emmanuel
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD By; Amadi Ikechukwu Emmanuel The forest trees were beginning to form a uniform path, as the pick up van upped its speed, thrashing anything in its path. Their abductors were not masked, they too were not blindfolded, they didn't have to be. Clinging on to his mother’s breast, with his arms tightly wrapped around her stomach……… “Yaro!.....na only you get am for mama…..comot your hand for there barawu!” he shouted, smacking John’s hand as he offered resistance. His Mom looked up at the man bent over her and her child, her eyes were teary and her hands shaky. His face showed no emotion, it was clearly not the first. “ Aiyee! Aiyee!! Aiyee!!!......” yelps of pain came from the van in front of theirs. From what Esther could see tilting her head to the back, one of the abductors got his pinky finger bitten off by a ...