UNFORGETTABLE: ‘My Wife Was Hacked, My Kids Shot To Death’- Pastor Who Lost His Entire Family In Kaduna Attack

An ECWA pastor in Masankwai village in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state has narrated his traumatic experience of how he lost his wife and three children during the attack by unidentified gunmen in the state on Friday. If any had told Pastor Riku who had left his family at home to attend a Men’s fellowship in another town that he won't come back home to meet his family he wouldn't have believed According to him: “After the evening meal, I led the evening prayer and the kids all smiled and told me, ‘good night, may God see us through till morning’ and I left for the meeting. “While I was at the DCC Men’s Fellowship Conference, my wife and the kids went to sleep with great expectations of uniting on Saturday with me after the conference, but the gunmen came into my home, killed my wife and our children. “My wife was cut with machetes, and the kids were gunned down. Some other neighbour’s kids fled to other neighbouring houses, but the attackers locked the doors and set the houses ablaze,” he narrated. According to him, others that escaped the inferno were hunted down like game in hunting expedition. “No infant was spared, no child or teenager was left alive. Adults were all eliminated. In death, man deserves the honour of a personal grave, but all these people were buried in a single grave – father and daughter, the mother and son,” he said in tears. The gunmen who attacked villages like Sankwai, Tekum and Unguwarr Gata, all villages in Southern Kaduna, killing people and cutting them with matchete was reported to have left over 200 people dead.