NASFAT Condemns Extra-Judicial Killing Of Sokoto COE Student

The Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society (NASFAT) Nigeria has on Saturday reacted to the killing of Ms Deborah Samuel, a Christian student of Shagari College of Education, Sokoto.

Samuel was killed in the school premises on Thursday for objecting that religious matters should not be posted in their class online platform meant for academic information.

Reacting to the incident on Saturday, the association condemned the extra-judicial killing and added that Islam is not such an act.

In a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Abdul Akeem-Yusuf, the Chief Missioner NASFAT, Imam Abdul Azeez Onike said the sad incident of extra-judicial punishment meted out to a lady in Sokoto recently, which resulted in her death, was condemnable.

“Religion and all its paraphernalia meant to worship Allah are for man and not man for those.

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“In the case of any disrespectful act on those religious paraphernalia or on Allah, capital punishment is not the answer but civilly, calling the person involved to order by making him or her understand that he or she committed sacrilege for him to refrain from such and not to kill,” he said.

Onike demanded justice for the late student and stressed that jungle justice, becoming rampant in our country, was a condemnable act by all religions.