The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has said that it is a criminal offence in Islam for anyone or group of people to kill anybody through jungle justice. DAILY POST reports.

The group revealed this on Friday. Information Guide Nigeria

It was reported that Miss Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto was allegedly killed by a group of Muslim students over a claimed insult to Prophet Muhammad.

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MMPN has however described the incident as anti-Islam, barbaric and sad.

National President of MMPN, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, in a statement, described the case of mob killing of the girl in Sokoto as a criminal offence in Islamic law.

In his words: “Allah says in Qur’an 5 verse 32 thus: … We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people”. jamb results

“So the punishment for any offence in Islamic law is decided by a judge. No other member of the public has that jurisdiction”.

“In essence, it is a criminal offence in the Shari’ah of Islam for anyone or any group to take the law into their hands. In essence, anyone who takes the law into their hands is a criminal that should be punished for their crime”.

“As a body of Muslim Media Practitioners, we join all others to condemn this barbaric act and call for immediate justice on any individual or group of people found guilty of perpetrating this dastard act”.

“This is so because if any individual or group is permitted to judge and execute punishments on their own without recourse to the constituted authority, there will be nothing but jungle justice and anarchy on the land”.

“Again, what happened in Sokoto is a manifestation of ignorance on what the religion of Islam preaches, hence the need for Islamic scholars to renew their commitments to preaching peace, love, tolerance and understanding as taught by the Prophet Muhammad himself.

“The Prophet (S.A.W) during his lifetime was maligned, insulted and attacked but he didn’t retaliate or order his people to prosecute any of them, hence, people accepted Islam during the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad ( S.A.W ) because of his exemplary and worthy character”.