A female classmate of late Deborah Samuel has revealed her final words before she was brutally murdered by an angry Muslim students.
Deborah, a 2nd year Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was accused of making a blasphemous comment against Prophet Mohammed in their class WhatsApp group. And the students took laws into their hands by flogging, stoning and burning her to death.
According to the classmate who witnessed Deborah’s jungle justice, she was killed for mentioning Jesus’ name. The student whose name is Rakia, described the incidence as the most horrible she has ever witnessed.
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She narrated how the voice note of the 25-year-old Deborah led to an uncontrollable situation. In an interview with Vanguard newsmen in Gidan Kaya area of Sokoto State, Rakia said:
“The last words from her mouth was ‘what do you hope to achieve with this’?
“Deborah was my course mate. I just stepped into the class when the uproar on her voice note started.
“It was her own course mates that started it. One of them said Deborah dared them by refusing to apologise when she was asked to. It all started with a debate on the upcoming examination on a general WhatsApp platform created for our course mates. One of the students asked her how she passed the last semester’s examination and in response, she said it was ‘Jesus o’
“Immediately, about three other chats came in from two Muslims and one Christian, telling her to retract the statement. Two students from other departments who overheard some Muslim boys discussing the matter told Deborah’s close friends to prevail on her to retract the statement. But she replied via a voice note on the platform ‘Holy Ghost fire. Nothing will happen to me. Is it by force that you guys will always be sending this religious stuff in this group? The group wasn’t created for that but rather as a notice on test, assignment, exam, etc, not this nonsense religious posts
“We were made to understand that some young men were brought from outside before the outrage. I was in class when some of our coursemates rushed in, saying ‘there is fire on the mountain o’.
“The Muslim students led the strangers to the class to look for her. In fear, those in the class tried to help her escape and took her to the security post from where they hoped to create a way for her to run outside.
“Already, a cab was waiting outside to drive her straight to the police station. Unfortunately, the mob overpowered everyone who tried to save her. They even threatened to kill anyone who attempted to stand in their way.
“She was dragged out, flogged and stoned.
“The last word in her mouth was ‘what do you hope to achieve with this?’ By then some of our coursemates were making calls to some of our lecturers to save the situation.
“At a point, all the Christian students fled the school premises. It was when I got home that I heard she was set ablaze.
“Since the incident, I have been having a flash of her pleading expression. She pleaded for mercy and called out for help but it was far from her. What a cruel way to die.”
