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In what she described as a deliberate attack, the widow of a pastor who was killed by Fulani militias in Bokkos Local Government Area, Plateau State, along with seven other persons, revealed how the attackers broke into their home and explicitly requested for her husband.

Pastor Mimang Lekyil was in charge of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) Local Church Council (LCC) in Kwakas-Mushere, Bokkos LGA, at the time of his assassination. He was attacked and slain within the pastorium. His wife was also shot by the attackers, breaking her legs.

Speaking on the attack in a video interview posted on social media on Thursday by war journalist Masara Kim Usman, Mrs. Lekyil stated that the attackers specifically targeted her husband by asking for him when they broke into their home.

The distraught widow described the terrifying moment her husband was killed by Fulani invaders in the video:

“On the day the Fulani people killed 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 killed my husband. They also shot at me, shattering my leg. After they finished their mission, they also kidnapped my sister.”

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