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Claim: A Facebook user, Datboy Comedy, shared a video on his page claiming it shows a “Kwara community mass burial.”
Verdict: Misleading. Investigation by DUBAWA confirmed that the video is AI-generated and does not depict any real events in Kwara State.
Full Text
The Kwara massacre occurred on Feb. 3 and 4, 2026, in the predominantly Muslim villages of Woro and Nuku in Kaiama LGA, near the Benin border. The massacre left at least 162 people dead. Reports indicate that the attack was in retaliation for residents’ rejection of militants’ demands to adopt a strict extremist doctrine.
Residents of Kaiama said hundreds of gunmen on motorbikes, armed with AK-47s, pump-action guns, and explosives, surrounded the villages at 5:30 PM West African Time (WAT). They blocked all exits and launched a door-to-door assault.
Mass burials started on Feb. 4, 2026, with 78 bodies reportedly interred, while searches and looting continued. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq visited the area, condemning the attack as “cowardly,” amid rising insecurity concerns across Nigeria’s North-Central region.
Following the incident, a Facebook user, Datboy Comedy, posted a video on his page with the caption, “Kwara community mass burial.” The post, as of Feb. 16, 2026, had over 500 comments, 896 shares, and more than 1,400 likes.
Comments under the post reflected public outrage and frustration. Olatunji Simeon asked, “Where is the government of Nigeria?”
Omamuyovwi Lucky Akeni wrote, “Let everyone refuse to defend themselves; we all go one by one. At the end, we say may their souls rest in peace.”
Chuka Eden added, “Let me see if Nigeria is not going to be divided; how, say so we ask for freedom?”
Grace Bola commented, “Now, for how long are we going to continue like this? See the number of people, they finished the community oooo.”
On the other hand, users like Ezekiel Emmanuel Itopa questioned, “What’s the offence of North Central?”
DUBAWA decided to fact-check the video due to the claim’s peculiarity and the public reactions it elicited.
Verification
We conducted keyword searches of news reports, local correspondents, and official state updates to find footage matching the footage shared by the claimant, but we did not find any footage of a real funeral event linked to the attack.
DUBAWA analysed the video using multiple AI-detection tools. First, we subjected the video to Hive.ai detection software, which assesses visual patterns, motion consistency, and rendering artefacts. The analysis indicated that the video was entirely generated by AI.
DUBAWA also ran the clip through Zhuque AI Detection Assistant. The tool returned a 96.37% probability that the video was generated by AI.
Conclusion
DUBAWA’s findings show that the video is AI-generated and unrelated to the killings in Kaiama, Kwara State.
