Read More Atheist Republic On May 12, 2022, Sokoto State Police in northern Nigeria announced that they’d apprehended two suspects for the murder of Deborah Samuel after a riot started against her where a mob beat her to death and burned her body.
Samuel and the two suspects are students from Shehu Shagari College of Education. Samuel was targeted for sharing an audio file on WhatsApp that contained blasphemous statements against the Prophet Mohammed.
A police spokesperson explained, “There is a WhatsApp group being used by the students, and her Muslim colleague student posted an Islamic piece. She criticized the posting.”
Security was present during the incident and tried to defend her, but they were overwhelmed when students began through sticks and stones at them.
Footage of the gruesome event has gone viral. The video below shows her lifeless body before and after being burned while also censored. The perpetrators can be heard yelling “Allah-hu-Akbar” while her body burns.
The college is closed indefinitely. The school’s website is inaccessible as of the writing of this article.