They want to kill me – Yoruba Lady cries out amid threat to life by Hausa extremists over ‘blasphemy’

One Ogunrinde Opeyemi has raised alarm over threat to her life over alleged blasphemy.

She said her life is in jeopardy due to a misunderstanding on an issue pertaining to religion she had with some students, while she was schooling in the North.

In a message, she raised concern over her safety, noting that her life was under threat from some of her old schoolmates, who were threatening her life, accusing her of blasphemy.

Opeyemi asked for protection from those who have declared her wanted owing to her religious belief.

Miss Ogunrinde, in the message, narrated that her ordeal began when she was schooling in the far northern part of the country, specifically Katsina, Isa Keita College of Education, Dustin-ma.

Ogunrinde, who is the third child and only female among the three children, said there was a WhatsApp group for the students, where they interact with their school activities, but to her dismay, some of her colleagues, who were males and Muslims suddenly turned the platform discussions, narrating issue of killing and molesting people as well as imposing their religion on others.

According to her, she was on the frontline criticizing her colleagues, not knowing that they belong to an unknown religious sect.

She said that she always told them that it was better to make the group platform for the academic purposes for which it was formed, but not comfortable with her position, the men started threatening to deal with her for having the courage to oppose them.

She noted that the threats got to their head one of the days when she challenged them not to discuss anything not related to their class work on the platform. However, this did not go down well with them, hence, they took a decision to deal with her.

To make good their threat, the lady said a group of men came to her father’s house in search of her.

She narrated that the first day they came to visit, she wasn’t around, but their threatening message was related to her by her siblings. Realising that her father has a church and that he is a pastor in the same locality, they became more enraged, insisting they have to deal with her.

She said that while this was going on, in another school, some students at one Ideal School, a private secondary school in the community, reported to youth outside the school that a teacher was teaching an SS2 class lessons that were ‘blasphemous’ in Islam.