The Zamfara state commissioner of Police, Adaji Gabriel has said that no innocent Christian student of the Abdu Gusau polytechnic was killed over alleged blasphemy as reported in some media organizations recently.
The police boss recalled that some media gave bad impression that eight Christian students of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic were killed for alleged blasphemy,”which was not true.”
He told news men at the Command headquarters in Gusau that there was no single innocent soul that was taken by the unwanted development that occurred in Talata Mafara town.
“In Our record, we have so far eight people who were burnt alive and were hoodlums who took advantage of the boiling situation in the town and went to a house belonging to a good Samaritan who rescued the embattled student for safety.
“T,they entered and are not lucky as the innocent family had vacate already.”
He said that the hoodlums were nine but that eight died while one hide in a toilet, thereby escaping the death.
The police boss said that the suspect is currently assisting the Police with the required information.
“With this development, there was no innocent life lost and there was no single Christian student who lost his live, It was mere argument between three students that stay in the same room at Abdu Gusau Polytechnic,Talata Mafara.” [myad]
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