Angered by claims made by controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi—that Christians in Plateau State and other parts of the Middle Belt bury empty coffins in mass graves to fabricate narratives of widespread k!llings 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 burying empty coffins and recording the process as if real victims were k!lled, just to push the narrative of a Christian genocide. This is desperation at its peak. A disgrace. Manipulating information to provoke hatred and international sympathy?”

But in a video he posted on his Facebook page on Friday, Rev. Dachomo called out Gumi and challenged him to prove his accusations and point out where the empty coffins were buried.

To prove that the claims of mass burial are real, Rev. Dachomo took a team of journalists to the site where 27 victims were buried in a mass grave in the Bindi-Jebbu community of Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State on July 25, 2025, after they were brutally murdered by Fulani militias in an attack on July 15, 2025.

According to the teary Rev. Dachomo, the victims included women and children who were gunned down and macheted by the bandits in an overnight assault.

In the video, Rev. Dachomo said Sheikh Gumi had not only desecrated the de@d by spitting on their graves but had also made a mockery of the survivors who are still trying to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones who were k!lled for no reason.

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 k!lling of innocent people by Fulani militias in the state.