…as CAN, relatives throng Rijau for burial
The late Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, who was stoned to death and burnt by her fellow students for allegedly making a blasphemous statement on a WhatsApp group, has been buried in Tungan Magajiya in Rijau Local Government Area of Niger State.
However, controversies trailed the burial rites with relatives condemning the manner which the remains of the deceased was handled, as the public vehicle that carried her remains and her father from Sokoto State just dropped them by the roadside in Rijau and promptly returned to Sokoto.
A family source and Pastor of the First Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Church, Tungan Magajiya, Pastor Emmanuel Mahaji, while speaking with New Telegraph via phone, confirmed that relatives and friends had thronged the village to bid the murdered student farewell.
Pastor Mahaji, while condemning the manner at which the deceased was treated before and after her death, said the father of the deceased was called on Friday to come and collect the ashes of Deborah for burial.
Mahaji, who spoke in Hausa, added that the father left on Friday and returned with her remains on Saturday morning.According to him: “We are not happy with the way the government handled the issue with kid gloves. The driver of the public vehicle even just dropped them and zoomed off just like that.