By Editor
At the end, only a few people were present when the corpse of Deborah Samuel Yakubu was arranged in a wooden box, with a crucifix affixed on top of it and lowered into a red earth.
Deborah, a Christian and leader of the Christian Sisters Fellowship met a gruesome end at the hands of her ‘friends’ and classmates at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto on Thursday, May 12, 2022.
The students, all Muslims had accused the victim of blasphemy against the Islamic prophet, Muhammed, dragged her outside her classroom, beating, kicking with every weapon they could find, when she was on her last breath, she asked” What do you want to achieve with this?” In response, the students piled wood and tyres on her, fetched some petrol and set her ablaze while they recorded and explained what they had done. With pride.
The Police came a little late, but managed to arrest two students over the crime. The next day, however, was bedlam. In Sokoto metropolis, thousands of Muslim youths and elders began a violent protest for the release of the arrested duo.
in a jiffy, they made placards reading ” We are Muslims not terrorists,” went to the palace of the Sultan before targeting businesses of Christians, burning down several shops but not before looting it completely.
Two Catholic churches were burnt. Bishop Matthew Kukah, a fiery preacher who had constantly called out the Buhari administration escaped with his life. He was a prime target of the murderers after Buhari declared him enemy of the state.
Sokoto state Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who is running for president subsequently imposed a 24 hour curfew on the city.
Meanwhile as people prayed for the restless spirit of Deborah to find rest, her charred remains found a final resting place inside a red earth, in her hometown in Tunga Magajiya, in Rijau local government area of Niger State.
It was a fast and solemn service, nothing fancy, consisting of a priest who looked like he would rather not be there at that time and about 10 other people, looking down at the Spartan coffin which surprisingly looked beautiful.
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