A Nigerian named Ahmed Usman was attacked by gangs and set on fire after he was seen arguing with a Muslim cleric in the capital Abuja on Saturday. The police took Usman to the hospital, but declared him dead on arrival.
“A heated debate escalated into an eruption of violence that resulted in the murder and arson of Ahmed Usman by an angry mob of two hundred, mobilized by the clergy,” said Abuja police spokesperson Josephine Adeh. constant.
Adeh specification The killing as “justice in the jungle” and the promised “adequate punishment” will be applied to those responsible for the “grass and vile act”.
Usman, who is described as a 30-year-old “member of the lawful gang”, said that he was first stoned and then sacrificed for “making statements deemed blasphemous”.
According to this version, Usman, an unnamed vigilante group, was guarding a building in the suburb of Abuja on Saturday and thought some local residents were rioting and tried to “arrest” them.
“It was said that residents begged the vigilante group to release them in the name of Allah, but one of the vigilantes kicked and made comments as blasphemous,” the report said. reported.
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Nigeria added more details on Monday and said the riot began when Usman tried to “arrest” a fried sweet potato vendor for violating the community deadline for being at the market after midnight.
A local witness said Osman made “abusive comments” after a sweet potato seller, who is also a Muslim cleric, demanded his release “in the name of Allah”.
Other members of Usman’s vigilante group said a gang of men dressed in black and with stones showed up, ransacked the group’s office, and then burned the tires to fire Usman.
Nigeria emergency summary On Tuesday, it was reported that the cleric who ordered Osman’s death was identified as Malam Lavan and was detained by the police. This report states that Osman himself was a Muslim and was “buried on the Sabbath according to Islamic law”. It was stated in the article that Usman got married earlier this year.
Both Nigerian and international media have placed Usman’s death in the context of rising tensions after the United States. murder Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a Christian student at Shehu Shagari Normal College in Sokoto state, was beaten, stoned, hanged and burned by Muslim mobs last month.
Yakubu was killed after sending a WhatsApp message to his classmates that was “considered an insult to the Prophet Muhammad”. Human Rights Watch (HRW) put. His killers were filmed celebrating his body.
Muslim students rioted after two suspects were arrested in connection with Yakubu’s murder, and police said they would chase others who appeared in the video mocking his body. The public demanded that the police release all suspects and stop the search.
In November 2021, Biden’s State Department removed Nigeria from the list of countries that openly violate freedom of religion.
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