Deborah Samuel: Churches in Sokoto under attack

Riot has erupted in Sokoto on Saturday over the arrest of suspected killers of Deborah Samuel on Thursday by Muslim students at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Wammako.

Specifically, the Catholic Church and ECWA churches were destroyed by the protesters.

There was tension in Sokoto in the early hours of Saturday, when the news broke out that three students were arrested in connection with the stoning and burning of the female student.

Protesters suspected to be Muslim came out in large numbers on Saturday and urged security operatives to release the suspects.

They were on the street chanting protest songs, claiming that Deborah Samuel was lynched and burnt for allegedly insulting Prophet Mohammed.

Some churches on Ahmad Bello way were also not spared.

A Catholic church and a building of the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA, were reportedly destroyed by the protesters.

CAPITAL POST also gathered that shops and business centres belonging to the non-indigenes, particularly from the South East were also touched and in some cases destroyed completely.

Combat aircrafts were seen hovering over Sokoto releasing teargas to disperse the protesters as at the time of filing this report.

Meanwhile, Sokoto State Police was yet to issue official statement on the riot engulfing the State.

The gruesome killing of the female student was widely condemned across the world, including some Islamic Clerics.