Northern Christian elders have demanded the prosecution of the killer’s of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto.
Deborah was lynched and her body burnt on Thursday by her irate colleagues for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.
The elders under the aegis of Northern Christian Elders Forum, in a statement by their Chairman, Ejoga Inalegwu, in Kaduna on Friday, urged the Sokoto State Government to immediately apprehend and punish appropriately the perpetrators of the murderous act.
The Christian elders warned that any measure short of arresting and prosecuting suspects would not be acceptable.
The Christian elders declared the act as pure murder perpetrated under the cover of religion, condemning the brutal murder of Deborah.
According to the Northern Christian elders, “The death of Deborah Yakubu (Samuel) is one too many by mobs wearing a cloak of religion in the North. In a country where there is a law, nobody, group or individuals has a right to take another’s life whatsoever, outside the due process of law.
“We also urge the government to make a public example and make a new statement by quickly bringing the perpetrators to book.
“This will (should) not be the usual rhetoric of condemnations and then the case is swept under the carpet with publicised arrests, no prosecution or jaundiced prosecution and letting off the hook, when the outcries die down.
“One day it is the videoed execution of Christians in the North because of a said killing of a terrorist in Syria, and next what should have been an internal WhatsApp class platform chat results in mob action murder, wearing the robe of religion in our dear North.
“NOSCEF commiserates with the family of Deborah Yakubu (Samuel) in their period of grief and this avoidable pain, and urge Nigerians to rally round them to comfort and lessen their grief.”