{"id":101932,"date":"2022-12-12T20:40:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101932"},"modified":"2022-12-12T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:40:41","slug":"nobody-prosecuted-for-deborahs-murder-ex-nerc-boss-laments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nobody-prosecuted-for-deborahs-murder-ex-nerc-boss-laments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody prosecuted for Deborah\u2019s murder, ex-NERC boss laments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Sam Amadi, has lamented the lack of justice concerning the murder of Deborah Samuel, a student who was lynched for alleged blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah, a Christian 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto, was killed by fellow students in May for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>On his Instagram page on Monday, Amadi lamented that nobody had been prosecuted for the student\u2019s murder because Nigeria had continued to appease \u201creligious fundamentalists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cNobody has been arrested and prosecuted for the murder of Deborah. Nobody will. This is because Nigeria is managed as a theocratic neo-feudal state. Nigeria\u2019s path to development passes through dismantling the religious construction of the foundation of the Nigerian state. All through, Nigeria has continued to appease religious fundamentalists.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe rights activist alleged that the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, and the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, did nothing to prosecute the killers so they would not annoy \u201csome crazy religious fundamentalists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Amadi added, \u201cNeither the IGP nor Governor Tambuwal has done anything to arrest and prosecute those who killed Deborah because if we do so, we annoy some crazy religious fundamentalists, who may be crazy fellows. The backlash of such annoyance will be politically costly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is trapped in backwardness of undue intermingling with religion. 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