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Atiku appears like a religious bigot

I have signed it

She deserves justice.

I implore all the female nairalanders to sign this petition.

Black man and power, and they won't do anything good with it

This is heartbreaking, I hate religious bigots with every fibre of my being

This has once again exposed the dark underbelly of nigerian society

What happened in Sokoto cannot happen in any developed Islamic country, this is why Nigeria is not developing, it is completely unacceptable and outrageous

Nigeria has degenerated so badly, say No to religious violence

I would have singlehandedly defended her if I was there, I wouldn't mind the outcome

Outrage has continued to trail the killing of a Christian female student, Miss Deborah Samuel by a mob in Sokoto on Thursday over alleged blasphemy with the British Government and the Christian Association of Nigeria joining the calls on the government to bring the perpetrators to justice.

This is just as President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a probe into the incident even as Muslim clerics expressed divergent views on the justification for the killing.


Deborah Samuel, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was on Thursday said to have made a comment in her school’s WhatsApp platform which her Muslim colleagues considered blasphemous of Prophet Mohammed (SAW) and killed her before setting her corpse ablaze.

One of the students of the college, who witnessed how Deborah was flogged, killed, and burnt described the scene as the most horrible she has ever witnessed. The student who identified herself simply as Rakia, gave an account of how the voice note of the 25-year-old student degenerated into an uncontrollable situation.

Speaking from her parents’ home in Gidan Kaya area of Sokoto State, the visibly shaken student said, “Deborah was my course mate. I just stepped into the class when the uproar on her voice note started.

It was her own course mates that started it. One of them said Deborah dared them by refusing to apologise when she was asked to. It all started with a debate on the upcoming examination on a general WhatsApp platform created for our course mates. One of the students asked her how she passed the last semester’s examination and in response, she said it was ‘Jesus o.’

“Immediately, about three other chats came in from two Muslims and one Christian, telling her to retract the statement. Two students from other departments who over heard some Muslim boys discussing the matter told Deborah’s close friends to prevail on her to retract the statement. But she replied via a voice note on the platform ‘Holy Ghost fire. Nothing will happen to me.

Is it by force that you guys will always be sending this religious stuff in this group? The group wasn’t created for that but rather as a notice on test, assignment, exam, etc, not this nonsense religious posts’

“We were made to understand that some young men were brought from outside before the outrage. I was in class when some of our course mates rushed in, saying ‘there is fire on the mountain o’.

“The Muslim students led the strangers to the class to look for her. In fear, those in the class tried to help her escape and took her to the security post from where they hoped to create a way for her to run outside Already, a cab was waiting outside to drive her straight to the police station. Unfortunately, the mob overpowered everyone who tried to save her. They even threatened to kill anyone who attempted to stand in their way.

Her last word as she pleaded for mercy

She was dragged out, flogged and stoned. The last word in her mouth was ‘what do you hope to achieve with this?’ By then some of our coursemates were making calls to some of our lecturers to save the situation. At a point, all the Christian students fled the school premises. It was when I got home that I heard she was set ablaze. Since the incident, I have been having a flash of her pleading expression. She pleaded for mercy and called out for help but it was far from her. What a cruel way to die,” she said.

Another Muslim student who did not want her name in print kicked against the mob action on the late Deborah. She said, “what happened did not warrant her death. We are calling on the government to make a policy that kicks against attack on anyone accused of blasphemy


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/deborahs-last-words-as-she-pleaded-for-mercy-what-do-you-hope-to-achieve-with-this/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwifvvfnt973AhVTgP0HHTYTDNoQ0PADKAB6BAgEEAE&usg=AOvVaw2Ra0m8o-zVCui2V_GHbPcp

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Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Lies

qekng40:
Lol, isn't that your slogan?

wow, so you know me this much

Do you know why I keep saying it?

qekng40:
Worthy is the Lamb!

lol, why that sha, I'm a good Christian anyday anytime

dominique:
This headline is highly misleading, the op mischievously did this because he knows a lot of people will only read the topic and won't bother to read the main post.

@Cyynthia I hope you have achieved what you intend to achieve? Now enjoy your ban

please don't ban her, though that was wrong but a warning should be enough

Righteousness2:
Your News is Very Fake!
Know this and know Peace !

Are u aware that the killer of the Journalist was not the Israelis as put out ?

Are u aware that the PA authorities refused to summit the bullet extracted from the Journalist body for Examnation and investigation?

Are u aware that PA authorities refused an investigation into who killed her?

Get down to what is on Ground and Stop posting Nonsense beer palor news.

stop sounding like an extremist, I'm 100% Christian too but what is bad is bad and it should be condemned

No good Christian should defend this please, I'm begging you guys to stop it,

The journalist was even a Christian

Mynd44

Righteousness2:
Very Fake news.

I Personally have on telegram, a very Clear video of events at the burial of the Journalist.

Rioters hiding near and under the coffin of the Al Jazeera reported after throwing stones and other objects at Israel Police officers in Jerusalem.

of course, you will surely find a way to justify this devilish act by the Israeli forces.

Even Americans are condemning it, and don't forget that she was a Christian

Reactions from Americans

Lalasticlala

This US senator has condemned the attack on her coffin

This is unacceptable, as we continue to mourn ms Deborah, we should also remember this journalist

Israeli police officers on Friday assaulted mourners at the funeral procession of a prominent Palestinian American journalist killed this week in the occupied West Bank, forcing pallbearers to nearly drop the coffin.

Video showed police officers in Jerusalem beating and kicking pallbearers carrying the coffin that contained the body of the journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, striking other mourners with batons, and forcing one man to the ground. During the commotion, the pallbearers were pushed backward, causing them to briefly lose control of one end of the coffin.

The incident happened outside a hospital in East Jerusalem, where mourners had gathered to take the coffin of Ms. Abu Akleh, who was a Christian, to a nearby church for her funeral.

It was one of several spasms of tension during a fraught afternoon, as riot police in several locations in East Jerusalem faced off against crowds of mourners waving Palestinian flags and chanting Palestinian slogans. Israel considers East Jerusalem part of its capital, but it is predominantly populated by Palestinians, and much of the international community considers it occupied territory.

The incident at the funeral procession lasted for roughly a minute, and followed a tense standoff between riot police and mourners in which at least one empty plastic bottle was thrown in the direction of the police.

The police then suddenly advanced on the coffin, swinging batons and aiming kicks at the mourners. As the police advanced, mourners threw projectiles, including what appeared to be a stick, and officers threw what appeared to be stun and smoke grenades.

In a statement, the Israeli police said they “took enforcement action” after some mourners began chanting “nationalist incitement” and after officers had given the crowd a warning. As the coffin was carried out of the hospital, police said, they were “forced to act” because “rioters began throwing stones toward the policemen.”

The police later distributed video showing an empty plastic bottle and two other bottle-shaped objects being thrown in the direction of the officers in the moments before they advanced on the pallbearers, and separate undated video showing several stones on the ground. There was no clear indication of when or how the stones had reached that spot.

Ms. Abu Akleh was shot dead on Wednesday morning in the occupied West Bank during an Israeli raid on the city of Jenin. Witnesses said she was killed by an Israeli soldier.

The Israeli Army said on Friday that while it was possible Ms. Abu Akleh was mistakenly killed by Israeli fire, its initial investigation suggested that she might also have been hit by a Palestinian gunman.

On Thursday, Israeli police warned Ms. Abu Akleh’s family about displaying “flags and slogans” at the funeral, said Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament.

At one point during the funeral a man holding up a wreath stood between the pallbearers and police. Later, as the black hearse carrying her coffin began to slowly make its way through the crowd, an Israeli police officer ripped three Palestinian flags off the vehicle and threw them to the ground, video showed.

Church bells throughout the Old City rang out as mourners chanted, “With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice for you, Shireen.”

A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel declined to comment, as did a spokesman for the Israeli public security minister, Omer Bar Lev, who oversees the police.

The funeral was attended by thousands of people and came a day after a state memorial service was held in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mourners stood in the courtyard of the Palestinian Authority’s presidential headquarters to eulogize and bid farewell to a person considered by many Palestinians to be a trailblazing journalist.

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, awarded her the Star of Jerusalem, also known as the Quds Star. One of the highest honors the Palestinian president can bestow, it is traditionally awarded to ministers, ambassadors and members of Parliament. Mr. Abbas described Ms. Abu Akleh as a “martyr for truth and for the free word.”

She was later taken to be buried in Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery, next to her parents.


Lalasticlala
Mynd44
Please push this to front page



https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/13/world/shireen-abu-akleh-funeral-israel.amp.html&ved=2ahUKEwiB5Jbkk933AhWSxYUKHcB3B28Q0PADKAB6BAgDEAE&usg=AOvVaw0kXnEVniai7FvMxsbPwKL8

Atiku should just shelve his presidential ambition for now

I'm solidly behind the move, she deserves justice, we cannot allow evil to prevail in our society

You talk too much sir

So the aspirants cannot submit it by themselves again

None of them is qualified to govern Nigeria

Another drama

Arrest the murderers and stop the nonsense

Orkpekyandega:
Then the rehabilitation will have to start from their elites.

See why...

they are all bunch of zealots

They need serious rehabilitation in a mental institution

They are bunch of zealots

People are doing unthinkable things nowadays

Foolish man

This is serious, snakes everywhere, are they competing with humans

Time will tell

Such a wishing thinking, non starter and pipedream

Igbos will totally disagree with you, there's serious marginalisation in Nigeria Mr governor