Deborah: Wole Soyinka Calls For National Imam’s Sacking

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called for the sack of the Imam, National Mosque, Professor Ibrahim Maqari, over his comment on the murder of Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, who was lynched for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad.

Soyinka accused the Islamic cleric of directing his followers to take the law into their own hands in the name of religion. The death of Deborah Samuel is one that has garnered a lot of attention on social media.
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He spoke in Abuja on Saturday during the one-year remembrance of the late former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and the launch of Attahiru’s biography written by author, Niran Adedokun.
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The Nobel laureate lamented lynching in the name of religion, adding that the “apostate of the creed of humanity, Professor Maqari, must be removed from office.”

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