Chief Imam of Abuja National Mosque, Prof. Ibrahim Magari
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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged the National Mosque management to sack their Chief Imam, Prof. Ibrahim Magari for supporting the killing and burning of Deborah Samuel over alleged blasphemy.
Deborah Samuel, a 200-level female Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto was killed and burnt by some Muslim students over alleged blasphemy.
While reactions were pouring in condemning the act even by some renown Muslim scholars across the world, including Saudi Arabia, the Chief Imam of Abuja National Mosque supported the heinous act and insisted that the late female student crossed what he called “Muslim redlines.”
Magari said, the Muslims have some redlines which must not be crossed, stating that Deborah Samuel crossed the redlines. He said if the issues of blasphemy are not addressed, the Muslims would address it by themselves.
By the Chief Imam’s utterances, Prof. Soyinka said, he has directed his followers to take laws into their hands.
Speaking at the one-year remembrance of the late former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru,on Saturday, Soyinka noted that the Chief Imam had aided and abetted the lynching and burning of late Deborah Samuel.
Soyinka said, “Professor Maqari, however, insists, with a handful of others, including vocal serving policemen quite recently, that there is no remorse involved in the torture and lynching of a young student on this earth.
“Maqari has implicitly directed his followers to take the law into their own hands in the name of religion, and innovation. That is the message of a supposedly holy man to a nation embroiled in his madness of multiple incidences.”
