, a 200-level Home Economics student, to death. They thereafter set the corpse ablaze. It was murder most vile but it was not the first such barbarity. On the contrary, such incidents occur frequently in Northern Nigeria. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , and the northern elite must resolve to make this the last.
That such bestial behaviour occurred in a citadel of learning and in broad daylight is sad, but is symptomatic of the pervasive nature of religious extremism in Northern Nigeria. Unchecked, it has birthed and sustained a 13-year-old bloody jihadist insurgency that has spread from the North-East through the northern region and earned the country notoriety as the world’s third most terrorised country.
This is a crime, simple. The responsibility of the government is clear: those who committed the heinous felony should be identified, arrested and swiftly prosecuted. The next step is to establish if there was negligence by the school authorities and the police and take the necessary action. Buhari and Tambuwal should send a strong signal to religious fanatics that Nigeria remains a heterogeneous, secular state.
Carnage by extremists in Northern Nigeria must be brought to an end. According to civil rights lawyer, Femi Falana, 190 persons were killed by mobs in Nigeria in the last two years, and “Sokoto State is ahead with 13 cases.” Open Doors, a US non-profit, declared that religious persecution in Nigeria “is simply put, brutally violent.”
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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