Former Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, has denied celebrating the k!lling of student, Deborah Samuel, who was mobbed to de@th for making a blasphemous comment.

 

 

 

 

According to him, his tweet supporting the de@th penalty for anyone making Blasphemous comments was made before Deborah’s incident.

 

 

Deborah, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto was gruesomely murdered on May 13, 2022, for allegedly making a blasphemous comment about Prophet Mohammed in her class Whatsapp group. Unidentified assailants hunted down and killed Samuel after she sent a WhatsApp voice note to her classmates that some of them deemed to be insulting to the Prophet Muhammed.

 

 

 

In videos that went viral, men with sticks were seen beating the lifeless, bloodied body of a woman, reported to be Samuel. The video also showed young men celebrating, with one man holding up a match box and saying that he used it to set her on fire and k!ll her.

 

The incident sparked an outrage in Nigeria with many calling for the prosecution of the perpetrators of the incident.

 

Many Nigerians have repeatedly accused Bashir of being a supporter of this sought of action after a tweet of his declaring his support for de@th penalty for Blasphemy surfaced online,

 

In an exchange with some of his followers this morning, Bashir argued that his tweet supporting de@th for blasphemy was made on July 1, 2015, years before Deborah’s incident. He dismissed claims that he made the tweet to celebrate Deborah’s killing which happened on

May 13, 2022.