TikToker Soldier Wife question nation’s silence to Brigadier Uba’s killing

A military wife known on TikTok as ‘Everything Woman’ has criticised what she described as Nigeria’s growing indifference to the deaths of soldiers, following the reported killing of Brigadier Uba in Maiduguri.

In a video shared on Thursday, she said she had spent hours online “waiting to see something that will give me hope,” but was met with what she called a disturbing silence across the country.

She compared the quiet reaction to Brigadier Uba’s death with earlier years when fallen soldiers were honoured with community support, and towns or states would shut down in mourning.

“I’ve been online since morning, waiting to see something that will give me hope. So tell me why, till now, everywhere is just quiet like a chicken died? When I was younger, if a soldier fell, communities and even states closed.

“Because 10,000 men would bury that soldier, escort him to his grave. Now, we lose a Brigadier General, and the whole nation is silent as if nothing happened.”

She also blamed military families, government officials, and the general public for their silence.

“Even military wives are quiet. If you stay quiet, it will affect you. Our government is quiet.

“As a country, how have we let it get to this point where they kill a Brigadier General and nothing happens? When I saw that man sitting there like a thief, I asked myself, what is the point? What is the point if our men can’t get protection, justice, or vengeance?”

Speaking on her personal struggles as a soldier’s wife, she said her only hope had always been that her husband would complete his 35 years of service and return home safely.

“Mr President, as a military wife, my consolation was that after carrying my children alone, attending every antenatal appointment and birth without him, one day he would serve 35 years and come back.

“Every birthday missed, every anniversary celebrated alone, every night slept alone, every responsibility done alone, was because I believed one day I would have him back. That was my consolation.

“So tell me, why does it now seem that he might serve forever, and that shatters my hope? Because he might miss every birthday for nothing. He might just die like a bird.”

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