*Condemns South East elements for killings capable of inciting ethnic, religious violence across Nigeria
By KEMI KASUMU
The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has revealed the promise of Allah for deliberate killers of believers such as Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) terrorists, who killed 32-year old pregnant Adamawa woman, Harira Jibril, and her four innocent children in Orunba North Local Government Area of Anambra, South East Nigeria, on Sunday May 22, 2022.
“Whoever kills a believer deliberately, the penalty for him is Hell, where he will remain forever. And God will be angry with him, and will curse him, and will prepare for him a terrible punishment,” Allah says in the Qur’an Surah An-Nisa (The Women), chapter 4 verse 93, cited by the Muslim Journalists, while it also condemned in strong terms the evil action of who they called “suspected IPOB Christian Terrorists”.
The association, in a statement issued in Abuja by its National President, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, dated Friday May 27, described the killing of the woman and her four children, all of Northern extraction as barbaric, brutish and capable of inciting ethnic and religious violence across the country.
The association therefore joined other notable groups and individuals who have condemned the act, called on security agencies to fish out, arrest and prosecute perpetrators of the heinous act in the interest of justice.
MMPN tasked all men of conscience , human and women rights critics and in particular the British Government and United Nations to condemn the ugly incident with the same energy they condemned other killings in Nigeria especially in the North.
The DEFENDER recalls that remains of Harira and those of her four children murdered with her were buried in Awka on Wednesday.
Ahmed Jibril, the husband, had named his deceased wife Harira Jibril, 32, and the four children Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2.
He said, “They were coming back home after she visited her sister who was living in the nearby town. She and the four children were all wearing hijabs; that was why the gunmen targeted them.”
