Over 2000 people on Saturday, April 10 in Dublin marched in protest of the racist murder of a Nigerian teen. Dublin is the largest city and capital of Ireland. The march was peaceful with a large number of police presence. Toyosi Shittabey, a Muslim 15-year-old boy of Nigerian decent was on Friday, April 2 this year stabbed to death in Dublin, in what many described as racial attack. The teenager was found lying on the street, near his home, at Mount Eustace in Tyrelstown at about 2000 BST on the fateful day. He was rushed to the hospital and died short time later. Many condemned the attack, describing it as racially motivated. A Dublin teenager, Patrick Kabangu, was reported as saying: “Racism is hiding everywhere. It is in the schools. Everywhere in Ireland is racist, it is just being hidden. This country is crazy.” Another resident in a Dublin Sunday Tribune report said: “It was a racist attack. He was a lovely happy-go-lucky boy.” Two men aged 23 and 38 were arrested as suspects. The Garda (Irish Police) in a press statement said an official from its Racial and Intercultural Office was working in the city amid concerns about tensions.

Shittabey, is one of six children who migrated to Ireland with their parents 11 years ago. The 15-year-old, a talented footballer who played for Shelbourne’s youth team, was walking home from the National Aquatic Centre in company of friends when they were subjected to racial name calling by two men in the Mount Eustace estate. Words were exchanged between the two groups with Shittabey’s group walking away from the scene. The duo ran into their nearby home and picked up knives with which they went after Shittabey’s group in a car. The 15-year-old told his friends to ignore the stalkers and as they walked away, Shittabey was stabbed on the chest by one of the men.

A very reliable source identified one of the assailants as Paul Barry, 38, a resident of an undisclosed address on Pearse Street in Dublin. Paul Barry according to the source, was in 2001 when he was 29, charged under Section 2 of the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, after a stabbing incident on Pearse Street the previous year. Barry who was unemployed at that time was charged along three other men - Paul Fitzpatrick (20), David Colclough (29), and Darren Kenny (31). The four, charged under Section 2 of the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act were accused of using the word ‘nigger’ and ‘niggers’ during an attack, June 11, 2000 on David Richardson, 46, and his son Christian, 25, on Pearse Street. ( Continues below…… )



Photo Above: Late Toyosi Shittabey

The march in memory of Toyosi Shittabey was organized against calls for its abandonment by Nigerian Muslim community leaders who argued it may spin out of control. In addition, some of the religious leaders saw it as too political. The march which began at Parnell Square, ending at the Irish Parliament, was led by a sizeable contingent of mainly black teenagers. “Never Again” they chanted as they marched with different worded placards.

The march which mobilized a faction of Dublin black population, and both human rights and anti-racist groups, was unquantifiable display of solidarity. Different speakers drawn mainly from political parties spoke at the end of the march. Ciaran Cuffe, Green Party junior minister spoke condemning the attack in its totality.

Other speakers included Socialist MEP Joe Higgins, trade union representative Jack O’Connor of SIPTU, members of the African community and Shittabey’s cousin Abisoye Shittabey. Toyosi’s cousin after her speech, read a poem she wrote for the commemoration, which read: “God wanted a football player for his team in heaven. He looked down and say Toyosi Shittabey.” The crowd concurred: “So God took him by the hand . . . You are safe where you are . . . in God’s care.” Jack O’Connor spoke of the need for unity and solidarity in the wake of Shittabey’s death. “No one should attempt, on the basis of this tragic event, to promote division or disharmony on the basis of where someone lives or comes from,” he said. ( Continues below…… )



Photo Above: Demonstration in memory of Late Toyosi Shittabey

When the march reached government buildings, it was addressed by Minister of State, Ciaran Cuffe. Cuffe in his speech said that the Minister for Integration should work closely with the Department of Justice to make sure those who murdered Shittabey faced penalties they deserve under the law. He continued: “There is no black Ireland or white Ireland, there is one Ireland. There is no old Ireland and new Ireland, there is one Ireland.” ( Continues below…… )



Photo Above: Demonstration in memory of Late Toyosi Shittabey ( 2nd Photo )

Many have condemned the racist murder of Shittabey, while some disgruntled elements are engaging in cyber ranting. There are several reports of racist blogging on possible backlash from Shittabey’s murder. The bloggers, many using neo-Nazi logos in their identity boxes, discuss the possibility of a backlash from the immigrant community in the death of Toyosi Shittabey. Some of the racist comments included: “If they want trouble they will get it – they had better get on the government/taxpayer-sponsored planes back home cos its gonna get worse for them if they stay. This country is in recession – we don’t need leeches sucking us dry.”

Sub-Saharan Africans were described as “Watermelons” in one blog. One blogger describing himself as “Irish Celt” wrote: “If they start a revenge campaign I will be out on the street looking for more niggers to kill. These welfare-suckers are outbreeding us 6 to 1 and if we don’t sort them out now it will only get harder, just look across the water in England, there are lots of suburbs whites can’t even walk through without being attacked by niggers. We didn’t ask for these niggers to come here to our country, they were not invited and they are sure as hell not welcome. This liberal social experiment on us Irish has been foistered [sic] onto us without question nor debate. Then the liberals wonder why so many of us are raging over the flood of these welfare-sucking scum into our country.” ( Continues below…… )



Photo Above: Demonstration in memory of Late Toyosi Shittabey ( 3rd Photo )

Shittabey was given a Muslim burial Thursday, April 8 after view of his body in a coffin at a Lucan funeral home. Many filed past his body in the funeral home, after the traditional Muslim washing and shrouding ceremony took place. Shittabey’s heartbroken father Segun and his brothers Sodiq, 22, and Tunde, 12, looked on as mourners paid their last respect.

The body was conveyed in a hearse, in a long funeral procession with a Garda escort, to Newcastle Cemetery in Dublin for internment. Mourners wept as the coffin was brought out of the hearse and laid on the ground. The lid was opened and the shrouded body removed amid loud wailing, weeping and calls to Allah. Nigerian Imam Shehu Adetola Adeniji from Dublin’s Sheriff Street Mosque led a short prayer. It was then lowered into the grave to the waiting arms of two imams, thence onto wooden slabs, where the 15-year-old was laid to rest on his right side facing east. Shittabey’s brothers Sodiq and Tunde, were the first to throw clay over their sibling’s grave before it was covered with earth.

As mourners chanted and cried out Shittabey’s name, Imam Adeniji urged them to look at the teen’s death as a lesson. “No matter how or what was the cause of his death it was destined that he was going to live just 15 years and the 15 years of his life were very glorious. It’s a lesson for everybody so we can improve our lives, be law-abiding and follow the way of God,” he said. “No amount of protest, no demonstration will bring back this boy’s soul. Your good mind is what he needs – not fighting, not crying,” Adeniji continued. Referring to the planned protest march, he said: “Demonstration is uncalled for. We do not approve of it. It is creating social unrest . . .”

Assistant Imam at Sheriff Street Mosque, Alhaj Saliu Adewunmi Adeniran speaking against a protest rally said: “It can instigate problems with teenagers and we are worried about where it might lead.”

Important dignitaries at the funeral included the Nigeria Ambassador to Ireland, Kemafo Nonyerem Chikwe and Irish Minister for Integration and Equality, Mary White. Teachers and Shittabey’s schoolmates from Hartstown Community School and representatives from Shelbourne Football Club were also in attendance.


Photo Above: Toyosi Shittabey’s coffin at Newcastle Cemetery in Dublin

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More Pic's, may his soul rest in perfect peace. Amen.

Could this be because of Mutallab?

Dolemite:

Could this be because of Mutallab?

Probably not. May just be plain ol' xenophobia.

wales:

A very reliable source identified one of the assailants as Paul Barry, 38, a resident of an undisclosed address on Pearse Street in Dublin.

Look @ this Billygoat 38 year old Agbaya oshi


May His Gentle Soul Rest In Peace.

This is bad
This r d relics of years of misrule by these dictators OBJ, IBB, Abacha(may he die in his grave) and others. Esp, IBB

I don't realy know d numbers of Nigerians and blacks in Dublin. According to d blogs posted by d So called supremacist - "These welfare-suckers are outbreeding us 6 to 1 and if we don’t sort them out now it will only get harder, just look across the water in England, there are lots of suburbs whites can’t even walk through without being attacked by niggers"

I don't think Nigerians would b comfortable in a situation whereby our population is increased to 200million and we have 50Million of them as white. in other word for every 3 nigerian there is 1 white. I or some of us would start to feel this is another form of colonialism, especially, if we have to lose our jobs to them, share a lot of our comfort with them. Look at indians in Nigeria for xample its beginning to get worrisome for us. Remember Ghana(black pple like us) must go in d 80s.

The brunt shouldn't have been felt by Toyosi, too young to die. There r better ways to tell ur guest its time to go 2 ur home.

I'm sure if home is not hell 3quarter of this pple would be here at home. And probably Toyosi would still b alive. Our resources r enuff for us if we can get good leaders.

Now that the gap-tooth flashing idiot- that sent our family, friends, and neighbours into massive green pasture-seeking exile, to be killed, mistreated, slaved, overworked, abandoned, lonely, separated, despised etc- who stepped aside after 8years of kicking us back into d dark age, he now wants to come back. God we'll not allow it, we will not allow it. May d blood of Toyosi and other Nigerians living or dead under terrible oppression be on his head and his children. Peace will elude them everyday of their lives, posterity will judge them soon enuff.

It is time to count our teeth with our tongue. We can choose our leaders ourselves and let all this old buffons go to their grave, but if we choose them still, I guess d killing as just started and it might just b u or ur relation next. The choice we make 2day determines our 2moro

RIP Toyosi