Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has condemned the recent killing of a pregnant woman identified as Harira Jubril and her four children, Fatima, Aisha, Hadiza, and Zaituna in Anambra State.
The victims, who are of northern extraction, were reportedly killed at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area.
MMPN in a statement by the National President, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, described the killing as barbaric, brutish and capable of inciting ethnic and religious violence across the country.
The association, therefore, called on security agencies to fish out, arrest and prosecute perpetrators of the heinous act in the interest of justice.
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MMPN tasked all men of conscience, human and women rights activists 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.
According to the group, Allah says in Qur’an 4 verse 93: “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.”
The remains of Harira alongside her four children were buried in Awka on Wednesday.
The husband of the deceased, Jibril, earlier said his wife and four kids were murdered because they were wearing hijabs.
“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,” he said.
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