Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo in a video he posted on his Facebook page on Friday, confronted Sheikh Gumi, challenging him to back up his claims and reveal the locations of the empty caskets.
Ezekiel Dachomo Concerned about the assertions made by Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, a controversial Islamic cleric, that Christians in Plateau State and other parts of the Middle Belt bury empty coffins in mass graves in order to fabricate stories of widespread killings and genocide—fiery Plateau clergyman Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo has challenged the scholar to provide evidence or face legal action.
The Kaduna-based Islamic cleric had, in a post on his Facebook page, claimed that a doctor who lives in the Middle Belt region of the country alerted him to what he described as the false tricks employed by Christian leaders in the region to deceive the world and push the Christian genocide narrative which led to US President Donald Trump classifying Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern”.
“A Doctor wrote me: Do you know that some Middle Belt Christian groups are now staging fake mass k! llings?” Gumi wrote in the post. “They are recording the process of burying empty coffins as if real victims were killed, just to push the narrative of a Christian genocide. This is the height of despair. A disgrace. Manipulating information to provoke hatred and international sympathy?”
To prove that the claims of mass burial are real, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo led a group of journalists to the site on July 25, 2025, where 27 people who had been murdered by Fulani militias in an attack on July 15, 2025, were buried in a mass grave in the Bindi-Jebbu community of the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State. The weeping Rev. claims that In Dachomo, women and children were among the victims who were killed by gunfire and machetes during an overnight attack by the robbers.
In the video Dachomo asserted that Sheikh Gumi had not only profaned the dead by spitting on their graves, but had also mocked the survivors, who are still grappling with the grief of losing loved ones. He also vowed that the community is willing and ready to dig up the grave and bring out the coffins to prove to the world that there were corpses at the time of the burial.
Addressing Gumi directly, the clergy said: “How dare you say we bûried empty caskets? The youths are ready we’re going to dig the graves. We are ready to bring out the corpses before everyone’s eyes!” He also called on the United States, the United Nations, local and international media to come to the state with a promise to take them around various graves where murdered Christians were buried to further prove that the genocide narratives are real.
In his anger, Rev. Dachomo said Sheikh Gumi will surely face the wrath of God in the fullness of time for downplaying the wanton killing of innocent people by Fulani militias in the state.