Tobi Adebayo
Presidential aspirant and Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has said that no verse in the Holy Quran supports killing as punishment for blasphemy.
Bakare said this in reaction to the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education.
ThisNigeria reported that Deborah was accused of allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad on a class WhatsApp group chat.
Reacting to the incident, Bakare, in a statement, said “It was with deep distress that I received the news of the gruesome killing of Deborah Samuel in Shehu Shagari College of Education, in Sokoto State.
“No Nigerian, and indeed, no human being, should be subjected to such inhumanity by fellow humans.
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“As a nation of diverse peoples and cultures, there are available institutional mechanisms for resolving sensitive conflicts and, no matter the provocation, no person under our laws has the right to take laws into their own hands.
“As one who was a devout Muslim and who read the Qur’an from cover to cover, what was done to Deborah Samuel is nowhere justified in the religion of peace that was handed down to me by my grandfather who was the first Chief Imam of Iporo Sodeke Mosque in Abeokuta.”
