A 60-year-old widow, Mrs. Murna
Yakubu from Ungwan Mississi community in the Jema'a Local Government Area of
Kaduna State, Nigeria narrated how the Fulani herdsmen murdered her husband in November 2016 and killed her
son on last year's Christmas Eve.
In her interview with the punch she said that
they were at home with the children chatting when they heard gunshots. They thought
the shooting was taking place in a neighbouring community. She was at home
while her husband was at the village square with the village head. Two of her children
who were with him at the village square suddenly rushed home in tears to tell her
that her husband and the village head were gunned down. They said the
assailants wore soldier in uniforms. They told me that those at the village
square thought the gunmen were real soldiers who were assigned to the community
to keep peace.
According to her, Yakubu her husband was a
man of peace. He wouldn't hurt a fly. After the incident, she ran to Goska, a
nearby community where she took refuge.
On December
24, 2016, which was the eve of Christmas, Fulani herdmen struck in Goska where she
was taking refuge and murdered her son on that day. He left behind a young wife
and a four-month-old baby.
She described
his son as a kind young man. She said he use to have harvest about 60 bags of
beans and 30 to 40 bags of maize every
year but as now, she doesn’t have even one bag of beans in the village.
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