Zamfara 8 were not Christians- Yari
Thu Aug 25, 2016 07:37:am Gist
3.2K By Buchi Obichie
Speaking with newsmen after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, said the 8 people killed in the state over an alleged act of blasphemy, were not Christians.
The Governor described the incident as unnecessary, and an act of the devil.'
Yari said: "From the intelligence I gathered from security agencies, there was a fight between two students of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic. One of them started shouting that the other person abused Prophet Muhammad.
"Other students came and beat the other boy, who is a Yoruba from Kogi State. Some people say he was a Muslim, other say he was a Christian. They beat the student until he collapsed and thought he was dead.
"Then security personnel requested help from one shop owner, who then took the boy to the hospital in his car. When the students heard that the boy was still alive and in the hospital, they went to the hospital. But he was rescued by the army.
"The students went back to the polytechnic and burnt down the shop of the good Samaritan. They then went back to town, and threw tyre in the man's house and burnt it down.
"That was how everybody in the house was killed; and everybody killed in the house were Muslims and not like the rumors going around in the social media that Christians are being killed in Zamfara.
"In fact, the mob wanted to go and burn churches and attack non-Muslims, but security forces stopped them. It's my home town and that's where I live."
The Governor described the incident as unnecessary, and an act of the devil.'
Yari said: "From the intelligence I gathered from security agencies, there was a fight between two students of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic. One of them started shouting that the other person abused Prophet Muhammad.
"Other students came and beat the other boy, who is a Yoruba from Kogi State. Some people say he was a Muslim, other say he was a Christian. They beat the student until he collapsed and thought he was dead.
"Then security personnel requested help from one shop owner, who then took the boy to the hospital in his car. When the students heard that the boy was still alive and in the hospital, they went to the hospital. But he was rescued by the army.
"The students went back to the polytechnic and burnt down the shop of the good Samaritan. They then went back to town, and threw tyre in the man's house and burnt it down.
"That was how everybody in the house was killed; and everybody killed in the house were Muslims and not like the rumors going around in the social media that Christians are being killed in Zamfara.
"In fact, the mob wanted to go and burn churches and attack non-Muslims, but security forces stopped them. It's my home town and that's where I live."
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