Police warn against reprisal after Sokoto cleric survives stabbing

The Sokoto State Police Command has warned residents against reprisal attacks pursuing the stabbing of an Islamic cleric, Musa Lukawa, astatine Lukuwa Mosque after Friday prayers.

Lukawa survived the onslaught and was discharged from infirmary aft receiving attraction for injuries to his cervix and near hand.

The Police Public Relations Officer successful the state, DSP Ahmad Rufai, disclosed this successful a connection on Friday.

Rufai said the incidental occurred astatine astir 1:50pm aft the constabulary received a distress telephone from a acrophobic citizen.

He said an unidentified antheral entered the mosque and attacked Lukawa soon aft the Jumu’at prayer.

“The assailant, who brought retired a crisp knife, inflicted heavy cuts connected the victim’s cervix and near hand,” Rufai said.

He said the fishy was overpowered by an aggravated mob and killed earlier information operatives arrived astatine the scene.

According to Rufai, the fishy was taken to Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, wherever a aesculapian doc confirmed his decease and his assemblage was deposited astatine the hospital’s mortuary.

The constabulary condemned the sidesplitting of the suspect, describing it arsenic jungle justice, and urged residents to let the instrumentality to instrumentality its course.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Hayatu Hassan Shaffa, urged residents to let the constabulary probe to establi...