{"id":530,"date":"2022-05-16T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:27:41","slug":"religious-violence-and-the-murder-of-deborah-samuel-in-sokoto-state-northwest-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/religious-violence-and-the-murder-of-deborah-samuel-in-sokoto-state-northwest-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE AND THE MURDER OF DEBORAH SAMUEL IN SOKOTO STATE, NORTHWEST, NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong> : 16th MAY 2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday 12th May 2022, some Muslim students of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, North-West Nigeria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legit.ng\/nigeria\/1469706-deborah-samuel-sultan-sokoto-reacts-killing-burning-student-makes-strong-demand\/\">killed and burnt their fellow student, Deborah Samuel<\/a>, over an alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deborah\nwas killed because of her request that a certain WhatsApp group created for academic\ndiscussion should not be used for religious conversation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as\nwe frown against debasing words against other religions and their adherents, we\ncondemn totally the inhumane assault and killing of the young girl by some religious\nfanatics. The most contemptible of the incident was the helplessness of the security\nagencies while the attack took place. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious\nviolence has claimed the lives of many Nigerians and has negatively impacted\nher development. While the nation is still struggling with the activities of the\nproscribed armed group called \u2018Boko Haram\u2019, Nigeria cannot afford another round\nof religiously-motivated violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We join other well-meaning Nigerians to call on both\nthe Sokoto state government and Federal Government to carry out a comprehensive\ninvestigation into the killing of Deborah and ensure that those responsible for\nthe lynching and burning of the young lady are brought to face the wrath of the\nlaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use this opportunity to call on religious organizations\nand leaders to structure their teachings towards tolerance, social cohesion,\nand stability and educate their followers on the essence of humanity. Various\norgans of Government must live up to their responsibility of upholding the rule of\nlaw and ensuring the protection of lives and properties. Young people must\nremain calm and ensure that they do not take laws into their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation is a non-governmental\norganization working on Conflict Prevention, Prevention of Violent Extremism,\nPeacebuilding, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafiu Lawal<br>Executive Director<br>Building Blocks for Peace Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE : 16th MAY 2022 On Thursday 12th May 2022, some Muslim students of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State, North-West Nigeria&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,90,11,91,92,7],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buildingblocksforpeace","tag-deborahsamuel","tag-nigeria","tag-religiousviolence","tag-sokoto","tag-youth4peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}