By Habeeb Olokooba
Yes! Deborah Yakubu merited all she got. The stoning, the fierce mob, her carcass to be burnt and the remaining ashes to litter the street for weeks or even months. At least people can now be killed without a court process whenever Ibrahim insults James’ prophet. Like meat, Mary can now be butchered by Maryam whenever such a scenario shows face. Yes, and nothing the mob should be fear of, they deserve free movement and can end others’ movement.
She was blasphemous, so she deserved the jungle justice she met with. Neither did she deserve to be tried properly or the least fair hearing. She doesn’t deserve to live, her parents deserved the mourning they got. “They didn’t train her well, neither was he cultured. Nothing bad if drops of blood are gushing out from the innocent eyes.
Similarly, Usman Buda also deserved the hospitalised treatment he get from his kin. Every stone that crumbled his bone, the agony he met with before death, he deserved everything. Did he not insult the personality of the beloved Prophet? Then the miserable death is all he deserved without any trial.
Reports have it that he was Izala Muslim and not someone that can insult the personality of the holy prophet for any reason. Someone said this allegation might be a result of business enmity. “He was known and sold most,” I asked, how and where to confirm this when the victim is already in the grave?
Meanwhile, they also deserve free passage. The Noble colonialists! They merited our hands akimbo, having crippled the firmly entrenched rules of Islam they met on the ground. They deserve to have a free life, after all, their ways are better. They know better than the original rules that bind us. What of those that maim, kidnap, kill and rejoice in our routes? In fact, they deserve amnesty.
If Clifford, Lyttleton, Lugard, Richard and so on having selfishly demoted the rules of Islamic law, deserved to live, then Deborah and Buda deserve the jungle justice, is not it?
I fear tomorrow when man will falsely allege man of blasphemy just to end his life.