At 9:43 pm on Monday, Chinelo Megafu, a dental surgeon, tweeted that bandits shot her on a train in Kaduna State, but she was scorned and described as a clout chaser.

Chinelo was one of the 972 people attacked by bandits on a Kaduna-bound train a few kilometres to the Rigasa Train Station in the Igabi Local Government Area of the state.

The bandits bombed the train track with an improvised explosive device (IED) which forced it to derail. Upon halting the train, the assailants fired gunshots sporadically, FIJ learned.

I'm in the train . I have been shot please pray for me.

— Chinelo (@nelo_x) March 28, 2022

Chinelo asked Nigerians to pray for her because they had shot her. Although many were sympathetic, others condemned her and labelled her a clout chaser.

Among others, Iyabo Awokoya, a popular Twitter user and apologist of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC), dismissed Chinelo’s plea and called her a liar.

A Twitter user only identified as Abolore quoted Chinelo’s tweet and asked her if she was dead shortly after she tweeted. “Are you dead now?” He asked.

Ishakaa, another Twitter user with a huge following, said, “You are shot and you can tweet. Please help us with your pictures of your gunshot wounds, but seriously, were you travelling to Biafra through Kaduna or what?

Many Nigerians asked Chinelo how she had the strength to tweet after being shot and asked for more proof. Some others who thought she did not mean what she said hoped that she would get shot.

Those who thought she was joking asked her where she was shot.

Some also acted as though Chinelo meant something else.

Some unverified accounts trolled her and called her a member of the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist group.

Others thought she was working for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Some of them have now either deleted their tweets or locked their accounts after Chinelo’s friends announced her death. Many of them have also publicly apologised for initially dismissing her reality.