Sambisa Abuja

Sambisa is community, in the southwestern part of Lake Chad Basin National Park, in southeast part of Maiduguri, Borno State.
This region, gained notoriety because of its forest that became the forte of Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. Despite this association with Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism, the name Sambisa in and around Abuja, is synonymous with beer parlors, fish joint, hard drugs, prostitutes loitering and parading discolored flesh with marks that will make the zebra and tiger, cover their faces in shame. So, I was told that there is a Sambisa off Kubwa Express Road.
Where? I asked. Follow us, they said and off I go to discover Sambisa. I had been to Sambisa after Army Estate Kurudu, so I am excited to be here.
This Sambisa, is in Abuja Municipal Area Council. You see, Kubwa Express, from Zuba to AYA, is the boundary between Abuja Municipal Area Council and Bwari Area Council.
From Zuba, Abuja Municipal Area Council is on the right, while Bwari Area Council is on the left until Mpape Junction.
This Sambisa, has the same features, like other Sambisa I have visited; cashew trees providing shelter, chairs with all the colors of the rainbow are here. Fish roasting & grill stands, are lined up and girls with eyelashes like the spike of Jezebel’s nails, drinking bitters, stare at you, crossing and uncrossing legs, exposing dark tunnel, daring you to invite her to your table.

At table around, young men wrap rizla,  pouring grass into it and with sealing their lips, holy incense fills the air.
The cluster of chairs, have invisible boundaries. Only the operators know these boundaries and will not serve you beer, pepper soup, if you are sitting outside their territory.
The joy of drinking at Sambisa is, it is a melting pot all Nigerians. Alcohol unites all and everyone minds his joyful business. The drinks are sold at pump-price.
There is tombo and they all claim that it is brought fresh from Enugu or Nasarawa until you kill it. The saccharine goes straight to your rectum and to send brown envelope to George Bush, becomes the only relief you seek. Child labor is rampant at Sambisa. Most of these underaged laborers are girls and radio without battery has it that, child prostitution also goes on at Sambisa.

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