It was especially heartbreaking for 75-year-old Mallam Yahaya Mota Nakuna, who had to witness as his children were murdered one by one by the attackers.
Yahaya, speaking through an interpreter to The Nation, claimed they had all left home for the farm on that fateful Tuesday with no idea of the peril that lay ahead.
He claimed that it was harvest season, and that they had gone to the property to gather their food, only for the gunmen to approach them and ask if they knew where the vigilance men who had been operating in the area were residing, but that his family had not seen anyone.
"We didn't know their actual goal because we told them the truth when they asked where the vigilantes that operated in the region stayed," he claimed.
"If we had known why they were on the land, we would have bolted when they arrived."
"At least, that's what we've been doing for the past few years to stay safe."
Yahaya explained that he was on the farm with six of his children and four others who had come to help them harvest, and that he was the only one who had been spared.
He claimed that the gunmen bound his hands and forced him to watch as his children were brutally murdered.
"After asking us where the vigilantes were, they asked all my children to come out of the farm and marched them into the village," he recalled, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Their wrists were bound behind their backs. One of them was beheaded, and the remaining nine were shot in the head one by one. They untied my hands after killing them and told me to leave."
He added that when the shooters left, he went looking for a cousin in the area who could help him bury his children.
"My children's graves were dug by only the two of us." Because we were just two, we spent nearly five hours digging the graves and burying them.
"That Tuesday began pleasantly, but ended with the loss of my entire family." What would be my starting point? At the same time, six youngsters have left! "How am I going to get through this?"
Yahaya is currently residing in the Zumba community alongside other residents of the communities hit by the incident on Tuesday.
On Tuesday about 11 a.m., gunmen opened fire on the communities of Nakuna and Wurukuchi. As multiple remains were discovered on several farms, the majority of the people were in the farm when the gunmen assaulted them.
Locals claim that more than 37 people were killed, however Monday Bala Kuryas, the Niger State Commissioner of Police, claims that only 13 people were killed.