President Tinubu visits Plateau state, meets mother in viral video holding dead son (video)

President Tinubu on Thursday, April 2, paid a condolence visit to the government and people of Plateau state over last Sunday’s deadly attack. 

Some assailants attacked the Angwan Rukuba community in Jos on Palm Sunday, March 29, leaving over 40 persons dead.

During the condolence visit, President Tinubu condemned the att@ck. He specifically commiserated with Ms. Rhoda, the mother who was captured in a viral video holding onto her dead son, AYuba, who was maimed by the assailants during the attack.

The President while offering words of sympathy said he knows the pain she is experiencing and prays for God to comfort her,

‘’I pray that this experience will not repeat itself again. Favour Rhoda, I know the pain. I saw how on the video you held on to Ayuba and the pain and agony in your heart. It is only God, only God who can give you joy and comfort. No amount of money can pay all of you back. Yes, as God we will try our best to comfort and work with you’ he said

I know the pain; I saw how, in the video, you held on to your son and the pain and agony in your heart, but it’s only God who can give you joy and comfort. No amount of money can pay all of you back. ‘As a government, we will do our best to comfort you- President Tinubu says to the woman in viral video who grasped her dead son after the Plateau attack.

Watch a video of him speaking below