| jmoore(m): 8:55pm On May 13 |
Deborah Emmanuel Wanted To Be Police Officer, But Nigerian Police Watched As Sokoto Mob Killed, Burnt Her –Cousin
In a detailed narrative given to TruthNigeria, Asabe recalled the events of May 12, 2022, when fellow students beat both her and Deborah over allegations of blasphemy.
Three years after the brutal mob killing of Deborah Emmanuel at Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, her cousin, Asabe Emmanuel, has given a harrowing of how she narrowly escaped being lynched alongside her.
In a detailed narrative given to TruthNigeria, Asabe recalled the events of May 12, 2022, when fellow students beat both her and Deborah over allegations of blasphemy.
“When I close my eyes, I still see her—Deborah Emmanuel,” she said. “The last time I saw her alive, we were both locked up inside the school security post. She was in the inner room. I was inside the outer room.”
Both women were students at the college. Deborah was in her second year of studying Home Economics, and Asabe was in her final year of studying Integrated Science and Biology. They came from the same village in Niger State and were raised like sisters.
Asabe recalled that she was in her hostel when someone banged on the door and shouted that Deborah was being attacked. She rushed to the scene and found her cousin surrounded by a mob.
“I pushed my way through, screaming, ‘What is happening?’ They turned on me, too. The mob beat us both. It was Deborah’s classmates who accused her. They said she had blasphemed the Prophet Muhammad. I didn’t hear her say anything like that on her WhatsApp group. I don’t believe she ever did.”
She said the school’s security personnel and some policemen arrived but failed to control the situation despite firing tear gas. The officers were eventually overwhelmed, and the mob dragged both Deborah and Asabe to the campus security post.
“It wasn’t the police who arrested her. It wasn’t the school authorities. It was her own classmates,” Asabe said. “They were the ones who brought her to the security room, saying she had committed blasphemy.”
Inside the security post, Deborah and Asabe were kept in separate rooms, with Deborah in the back and Asabe in the front. They could see each other through barred doors.
“Deborah wasn’t crying. She was quiet. I her looking straight at me and asking, ‘What time is it?’ I told her, ‘11:00 a.m.’ She was meant to be writing her exam by noon,” she said.
The situation worsened around 2 p.m. when the mob returned, chanting “Allahu Akbar.” They broke into the security post. Mistaking Asabe for Deborah, one of the attackers began strangling her with a chain.
“I was frozen in fear. By a miracle, a Muslim student from my home village walked in and saved me. He stood between me and the crowd and said: ‘Let this girl go! She isn’t Deborah!’”
That intervention saved her life. But moments later, the mob stormed the back room where Deborah hid. Asabe, nearly unconscious, heard screams and soon smelled smoke.
“I could not see everything, but I saw the smoke and the fire. I smelled it. I felt the heat… and I knew—they had killed her.”
According to TruthNigeria, some of the attackers were Deborah’s classmates. “They were not strangers. The people she sat with in class, the people who greeted her before lectures, were the ones who dragged her out and beat her.”
Asabe also blamed the school authorities and the police for failing to intervene.
“The police fired tear gas and left. I found out later there were 15 policemen watching everything from a distance. They had rifles they didn’t use.”
She said the trauma forced her to abandon her education and relocate to Jos, Plateau State. Now married with a daughter, Asabe says she still lives in fear.
“When I hear the name ‘Muhammad’ in any context, I panic. I no longer live in Muslim communities. I avoid them,” she said.
Asabe insisted that Deborah never insulted the Prophet and described her cousin as a devout Christian with dreams of ing the police force to fight corruption.
“She didn’t die because she insulted anyone. She died because she was a Christian girl in a place where that is a crime.”
She said she often asks God why she survived when her cousin did not. “I feel it’s because He wants me to tell the truth about what happened. Many people have said things… but I was there. I saw it. I heard it.”
She added, “They killed a girl who was holding books. She was planning to write her exam that very day. She was planning to the police force. Imagine, that was the police unit that left her to die.”
Deborah’s death shocked the nation and sparked widespread condemnation. Although a few students were reportedly arrested, no major prosecution has been made public.
“I don’t know if justice will ever come for Deborah,” Asabe said. “But I want to live a life that tells the truth about her.”
https://saharareporters.com/2025/05/13/deborah-emmanuel-wanted-be-police-officer-nigerian-police-watched-sokoto-mob-killed
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| jmoore(m): 8:57pm On May 13 |
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Yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of the murder of Deborah by terrorists of Akbar.
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| TheNobleProphet: 9:06pm On May 13 |
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I am happy for her because they gave her "automatic ticket" into Paradise - (Eternal Life).
For the perpetrators, their ers directly and indirectly, they are "eternally doomed" and they will all end up with "eternal destruction" from the Holy Judgment of GOD ALMIGHTY 🙏
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| Sharpsharp00123: 9:20pm On May 13 |
jmoore:
Yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of the murder of Deborah by terrorists of Akbar.
what do u have to say about killing of Dora akunyili husband by ipob?
When will u hold anniversary for the people killed by ipob in the south east?
I guess it only matters when it doesn't happen in d south east?
For Una side charity no dey begin from home
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| Sharpsharp00123: 9:21pm On May 13 |
TheNobleProphet:
I am happy for her because they gave her "automatic ticket" into Paradise - (Eternal Life).
For the perpetrators, their ers directly and indirectly, they are "eternally doomed" and they will all end up with "eternal destruction" from the Holy Judgment of GOD ALMIGHTY 🙏
let everyone respect each others religion
Don't mock or insult other people's religion
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| jmoore(m): 9:28pm On May 13 |
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nlfpmod
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| TheNobleProphet: 9:28pm On May 13 |
Sharpsharp00123:
let everyone respect each others religion
Don't mock or insult other people's religion
FALSE!
She did NOT mock their religion; she only advised them NOT to use "an academic Whatsapp group" for religious discussions!
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| Racoon(m): 10:37pm On May 13 |
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She does not deserved that gruesome death. Yet till date, not one has been called into ability. Oh God! What a wicked world.
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| Racoon(m): 10:38pm On May 13 |
Sharpsharp00123:
let everyone respect each others religion. Don't mock or insult other people's religion
The faith notorious for doing exactly what you said is well known globally.
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| Sharpsharp00123: 11:05pm On May 13 |
Racoon:
The faith notorious for doing exactly what you said is well known globally.
but ipob miscreants are Christians now?
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| Streetinvestor2: 11:26pm On May 13 |
Sharpsharp00123:
let everyone respect each others religion
Don't mock or insult other people's religion
Because of SW president. Many of you are no longer human.
This is why I hate that SW president with every breath in my life
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| Sharpsharp00123: 11:27pm On May 13 |
Streetinvestor2:
Because of SW president. Many of you are no longer human.
This is why I hate that SW president with every breath in my life
SW president?
Igbos will never fail to surprise us
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| Streetinvestor2: 11:33pm On May 13 |
Sharpsharp00123:
SW president?
Igbos will never fail to surprise us
Yoruba has been surprisingly us since the creation of this nigeria with double face....go and
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| TopBanter: 11:37pm On May 13 |
TheNobleProphet:
FALSE!
She did NOT mock their religion; she only advised them NOT to use "an academic Whatsapp group" for religious discussions!
Correct.
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| Sharpsharp00123: 11:43pm On May 13 |
Streetinvestor2:
Yoruba has been surprisingly us since the creation of this nigeria with double face....go and
but we have had everything d Igbos always wailed for
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| Sharpsharp00123: 11:44pm On May 13 |
TheNobleProphet:
FALSE!
She did NOT mock their religion; she only advised them NOT to use "an academic Whatsapp group" for religious discussions!
so what did she say after that?
All this bias report self!!!
Go n read about what truly happened
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| Bittersweetnig(m): 4:15am On May 14 |
Sharpsharp00123:
let everyone respect each others religion
Don't mock or insult other people's religion
where did he mock other religion? Wickedness won't let you understand basic truth, you just want to create another wickedness
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| Omoawoke(m): 4:18am On May 14 |
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Three years later and the killers are still roaming free and even yet, the so called educated Muslims and exposed Muslims around us refused to condemn this act. They mostly keep quiet and pretend they did not see it… deep down, they are okay with what happened
I’ve never seen such a dead backward and retardded set of calamity called humans
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| mytime24(f): 6:00am On May 14 |
Racoon:
She does not deserved that gruesome death. Yet till date, not one has been called into ability. Oh God! What a wicked world.
Nigeria happened to her
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| aswani(m): 6:33am On May 14 |
TheNobleProphet:
FALSE!
She did NOT mock their religion; she only advised them NOT to use "an academic Whatsapp group" for religious discussions!
She did not deserve to die but the words she used were a bit stronger than "advice".
Hopefully her death was not in vain and people will learn to be very careful around religious fanatics.
Meanwhile, until Atiku apologizes for removing his tweet because of votes, Peter Obi aligning with him is a shame.
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| Mrexcell(m): 7:17am On May 14 |
Sharpsharp00123:
what do u have to say about killing of Dora akunyili husband by ipob?
When will u hold anniversary for the people killed by ipob in the south east?
I guess it only matters when it doesn't happen in d south east?
For Una side charity no dey begin from home
How are u sure it was ipob that killed him? Hope u have heard asari dokubo confessions that the federal govt gave his security outfit a contract to kill igbos in igboland?
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| Mrexcell(m): 7:27am On May 14 |
aswani:
She did not deserve to die but the words she used were a bit stronger than "advice".
Hopefully her death was not in vain and people will learn to be very careful around religious fanatics.
Meanwhile, until Atiku apologizes for removing his tweet because of votes, Peter Obi aligning with him is a shame.
How is it a shame for peter obi to align with atiku who is a far more civilised and more tolerant muslim than buhari who osinbajo who called himself a redeem pastor aligned with but yet u all still celebrated him not even caring if he didn't do anything to stop the genocide against innocent Christians in the middle belt and the south during buhari's tenure?
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| Jaylord12(m): 7:38am On May 14 |
Sharpsharp00123:
but ipob miscreants are Christians now?
Making excuses for toxicity and extremism tell us who you are
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| aswani(m): 7:39am On May 14 |
Mrexcell:
How is it a shame for peter obi to align with atiku who is a far more civilised and more tolerant muslim than buhari who osinbajo who called himself a redeem pastor aligned with but yet u all still celebrated him not even caring if he didn't do anything to stop the genocide against innocent Christians in the middle belt and the south during buhari's tenure?
Who celebrated Bubu, certainly not me. The guy was as useless as all the PDP presidents before him.
Good for Peter Obi to align with Atiku and El Rufai anyway. We just don't want to hear stories that touch when he is collecting wotowoto from them.
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| Mrexcell(m): 7:48am On May 14 |
aswani:
Who celebrated Bubu, certainly not me. The guy was as useless as all the PDP presidents before him.
Good for Peter Obi to align with Atiku and El Rufai anyway. We just don't want to hear stories that touch when he is collecting wotowoto from them.
Am talking about osinbajo inability to condemn the killings that happened during buhari's time. Atiku is a better muslim I don't think obi will ever regret aligning with him but I can't guarantee that for el rufai, obi will be digging his political grave if he decides to run with him.
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| Mrexcell(m): 7:51am On May 14 |
aswani:
Who celebrated Bubu, certainly not me. The guy was as useless as all the PDP presidents before him.
Good for Peter Obi to align with Atiku and El Rufai anyway. We just don't want to hear stories that touch when he is collecting wotowoto from them.
Am actually talking about osinbajo inability to condemn the killings that happened during buhari's time. Atiku is a civilised muslim I don't think obi will ever regret aligning with him but I can't guarantee that for el rufai, obi will be digging his political grave if he decides to run with him.
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| AcrossUNIVERSE: 8:56am On May 14 |
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Good example of how Police is your friend
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| cassidy1996(m): 9:42am On May 14 |
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Religion and politics
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