Deborah Yakubu’s killers are charged with incitement instead of murder

It should be placed as one of the wonders of the Nigerian government how the killers of Miss Deborah Yakubu Samuel were charged with incitement and disturbance of public peace instead of charging them for murder and culpable homicide as expected.

There is clear evidence that Deborah was murdered by the mob and some even boldly said in the video recording that they were the ones who set Deborah ablaze after she was killed; charging her killers with just incitement and disturbance of public peace and not murder and culpable homicide is spit on Deborah’s grave, it is a slap to the parents, family, and friends of the deceased who are hoping that Deborah gets justice and her killers faced the law, it is also an insult to the collective intelligence of Nigerians.

It is the law provided in both the criminal code (applicable in the south) and the penal code which is applicable to the Northern Nigeria that when a person kills another the killer has committed an offense known as murder and culpable homicide and this offense attracts capital punishment which is a death sentence and when it has to do with a capital offense like murder, it is above the jurisdictional clearance of the magistrate court or any other lower court of record, it is to he tried at High court of the state but to our utmost surprise, Deborah’s killers were brought before the magistrate court and they were charged with incitement and disturbance of public peace which attract a meager punishment and option of fine.

This is highly disappointing, disappointing of the Sokoto state government and the judiciary to have let religious sentiment blur the line between justice and public administration. It is even better that the killers of Deborah are never charged and they are “left for God” instead of this judicial gimmick that is currently going on now in Sokoto state in the guise of trial.

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