What is the view in northern Nigeria on the abolition of the death penalty?
It’s not only northern Nigeria, which has the problem of abolishing the death penalty. It touches on the faith and belief of Muslims all over the world. Sani: ‘Abolishing death penalty is like removing a verse from the Holy Koran’ Muslims believe that the holy crime is supreme and once there is any problem associated with the killing of a human being, the penalty is death for those who have killed other people. If you say that you are abolishing such sentences, it is as if as you are removing some verses of the Koran from the Holy Koran. What would happen if the Nigerian Federal State abolished the death penalty – would Sharia law have to comply with that? It is not possible, because the majority of the members of the Nigerian national assembly are Muslims. Not only the northerners – we have a lot of southerners who are Muslims. So I never think of what will happen, because I know the law will not be passed by our national assembly. Why are Muslims so in favour of the death penalty, wh
