The widow of a pastor who was k!lled by Fulani militias, along with seven other people, in an attack in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State has narrated how the assailants broke into their home and specifically asked for her husband in what she described as a targeted attack.
At the time he was murdered, Pastor Mimang Lekyil was in
charge of the Local Church Council (LCC) of the Church of Christ in Nations
(COCIN) in Kwakas-Mushere, Bokkos LGA, when he was attacked and k!lled inside
the pastorium. The assailants also shot his wife, shattering her legs.
While speaking about the attack in a video interview shared
on social media on Thursday by conflict journalist Masara Kim Usman, Mrs.
Lekyil said that when the attackers burst into their home, they deliberately
asked for her husband, indicating that he was their specific target.
In the video, the grieving widow narrated the harrowing
moment the Fulani attackers took her husband’s life:
“On the day the Fulani people k!lled my husband, my sister
and her son visited us. They were with us that day. At night, after praying and
just about to sleep, my husband went into the bathroom.
“As he was about to come out, suddenly some Fulani boys
burst into the house. They were very young children, all armed. There were
about five or six of them.
“I whispered to my husband to come inside the room. He asked
me what had happened, and I told him that Fulani boys had entered the house. He
followed me inside while I held my sister’s hand, and we went into the room.
“As we were going inside, they saw my husband coming out
from the bathroom. They confronted him and said, ‘Baba, ka zo’ (Baba, come
here). That was the word I heard from them. They said, ‘Baba, let’s go inside
the room.’
“My thought was that they were going to allow him to put on
his clothes, thinking they wanted to kidnap him. He was not feeling well that
night, and the weather was very cold.
“We were still preparing clothes for him when they started
shooting. As they were shooting, they closed the door and continued spraying
the room with bullets.
“At the same time, they were ordering us to come out. As
they were shooting, I was thinking the vigilante group in the community would
come to our aid. And there were soldiers around, maybe they would come and
rescue us, but they did not.
“The Fulani boys were shooting all around the room,
including at the doors.
“I did not even know that they had k!lled my husband. They
also shot at me, shattering my leg. After they finished their mission, they
also kidnapped my sister.”
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