A heartbreaking video from Nigerian journalist Chude Jideonwo has ignited national outrage after it captured a widow in Plateau State describing how gunmen stormed her home at 10 p.m. two weeks ago and shot dead her husband and two children.
“These people came and killed my husband and my two children,” the woman sobs in the 78-second clip posted Thursday by activist Chuks Eric E. on X.
“They killed them right in front of me.”Jideonwo filmed the testimony during fieldwork in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas, where attackers struck multiple Christian villages in late November and early December 2025.
Survivors told him the gunmen, widely identified as Fulani militants, burned houses, slaughtered livestock, and executed residents who could not flee into the bush.
Moreover, community leaders claim more than 50 people died in the latest raids, adding to the 150 Christians killed in similar attacks across Plateau State since April.
Despite repeated distress calls to security forces, soldiers arrived hours later in most cases, locals say.Consequently, fury has exploded online.
Thousands of users on X accuse the Nigerian government of deliberate inaction and complicity in what many now call a “slow-motion genocide” against indigenous Christian farmers.
“Where are the protests? Where is the international community?” one viral reply asks. Another declares: “This is jihad, pure and simple.”
Meanwhile, Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang has promised to strengthen local vigilante groups, but residents insist only decisive federal military intervention will stop the bloodshed.
As night falls again over the hills of Plateau, survivors like the weeping widow in Chude’s video say they sleep with one eye open, wondering which village the gunmen will hit next.