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  • Slain Deborah: At last, Atiku breaks silence on deleted Deborah murder tweet

    Slain Deborah: At last, Atiku breaks silence on deleted Deborah murder tweet

    The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has condemned the killing of Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, North-West Nigeria and at the same time explained why he deleted the tweet on the murder.

    He stated these on Sunday night during a live discussion on People’s Townhall, a brainchild of Channels Television and its partners.

    The PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar at The People’s Townhall, a live event of Channels Television in Abuja on December 11, 2022. Channels TV/Sodiq Adelakun.

     

    Atiku also said he deleted his initial tweet on the murder of Deborah because he did not approve the tweet. The Christian student was lynched in May for alleged blasphemy.

    Atiku’ tweet condemning the killing of Deborah was greeted with stark criticisms but the PDP presidential candidate said he condemned the murder of the student in “subsequent statements”.

    “I asked the tweet to be deleted because I normally approve every tweet. So, since I didn’t approve it, I said, ‘delete it’. If you read my subsequent statements on that murder, I condemned it.

    “There is nowhere it is said or it is an injunction in the Islamic faith that you can go and take somebody’s life, nowhere, it has to be through due process,” the former Vice President said.

    The deleted tweet on the murder of Deborah is one of the issues that have dogged the Atiku campaign on social media with critics asserting that the former vice-president deleted the tweet to please conservative Muslims.

  • BLASPHEMY: Deborah’s parent speak, lament cost of her death

    BLASPHEMY: Deborah’s parent speak, lament cost of her death

    Garba Emmanuel, the father of Deborah, the 200-level student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, who was burnt to death for alleged blasphemy, has narrated what her death would cost the family.

    Deborah’s father said he put everything into her schooling and could not afford to finance the education of her six siblings.

    He told reporters: “Everything we have, we put it into the education of Deborah and today, she is dead.

    “Because of Deborah’s schooling, we couldn’t send her siblings to school because we can’t afford it. If you have nothing, you can’t sponsor all your children to such schools.”

    The late Deborah, who was killed for alleged blasphemy, was the second of seven children.

    Emmanuel said they would leave everything in God’s hands.

    “As believers, we have taken this as an act of God. We will not seek for vengeance or any action. A believer resigns his fate to God,” he said.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Emmanuel, who is based in Niger State, was able to retrieve his daughter’s remains for a funeral.

    He said: “I went to the police in Sokoto and I pleaded with them that since the corpse had been burnt, they should help me with it so that it does not completely decompose, so I could bury it.

    “I also pleaded with the Department of State Services (DSS) and they reasoned with me and agreed. I signed some documents and they gave her remains to me.

    “I paid for the transportation from Sokoto to Rijau. I paid N120,000. It was hard getting anyone who will help us take the corpse down here.

    “Most of the Hausa men were reluctant to help us but you know that no matter the circumstances, someone always needs money. That was how we got someone to bring her body down to Niger.”

    He said the government was yet to contact the family.

    Still living in shock over the killing of her daughter for alleged blasphemy, Deborah’s mother, Alheri, said “Deborah was a respectful and diligent young lady who hated injustices.”

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that Alheri was hospitalized following the incident,

     

  • Female student burnt alive over alleged comment against Prophet Muhammad (VIDEO)

    Female student burnt alive over alleged comment against Prophet Muhammad (VIDEO)

    A mob in Sokoto on Thursday burnt alive a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education over alleged blasphemy.

     

    Identified simply as Deborah, the student was reported to have described a message about Prophet Muhammad on a WhatsApp group as “nonsense”.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered that the incident triggered tension in the school environment.

     

    The group, it was learnt, was created for academic purposes.

     

    According to a source that pleaded anonymity, the matter got out of hand after Deborah refused to apologize for her alleged comment on the post.

     

    “She was asked to apologise but refused and this heightened tension in the school. The college security personnel had to intervened by whisking her to their office but they were overwhelmed by students, who later set her ablaze,” the source said.

     

    A video of the incident has since gone viral on social media.

    Watch video below: