Jos Mother Gives Dead Son Cutlass to Avenge His Death
By: Abudu Olalekan
It’s raw. It’s messy. And honestly, it’s absolutely heartbreaking to watch.
Mrs Favour Ayuba isn’t just grieving; she’s demanding justice from the grave. In a video that’s been making the rounds on the internet since Friday, you can see her standing there, barely holding it together. She’s talking to her dead son, Promise. Telling him to pick up a weapon and fight back.
“Avenge your death,” she says. Just like that. No filter.
If you’ve seen the clip, you know the context. It’s the aftermath of the Palm Sunday terror attack in Jos. March 29. Angwan Rukuba area. Gunmen just… opened fire. At least 24 people dead. Promise was one of them.
Earlier videos showed her clutching his lifeless body, screaming. But this new one? It’s different. It’s darker.
She’s speaking in Hausa, her voice shaking but firm. She reaches under her clothes and pulls out a cutlass, wrapped in white cloth. She hides it. Then, right there by the coffin, she places it inside with him.
“If you want me to forget, baby, avenge your death,” she pleads, sobbing in the background. “I carried you in my womb for nine months; you suckled at my breast. Baby, I trust you. Revenge for me. Please, wherever they are, follow them.”
She says she hasn’t eaten since Sunday. Can you imagine? The pain is physical. But then she flips a switch. She stops crying for a second and mentions Gideon.
“Today is your birthday,” she says. “I named you Promise Gideon Ayuba. Gideon in the Bible went to war and came back victorious.”
It’s a bizarre, tragic mix of faith and fury. She’s using scripture to fuel a vendetta. She’s telling her son—who would have been celebrating a birthday today—that his job isn’t done. That he has to hunt down the people who killed him.
It’s not just grief. It’s a mother’s rage against a system that keeps letting this happen in Plateau State. She’s begging a dead boy to do what the living apparently can’t.
The video is hard to watch. But it’s real. And it’s spreading like wildfire because people are tired of just counting bodies. They want the kind of vengeance Mrs Ayuba is screaming for.
