The identities of two suspects in the murder of Deborah Samuel have been revealed by the Nigerian Police Sokoto State Command.
Deborah, a Shehu Shagari College of Education student allegedly insulted Prophet Mohammed and she was lynched and burnt.
On Monday, the prosecutor, Inspector Khalil Musa, named the suspects as Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunchi, both college students.
However, the court postponed a decision on the application until a later date that would be communicated to the lawyers. As a result, the defendants were ordered to be remanded at the Sokoto Correctional Centre.
However, a total number of thirty-four lawyers appeared in court today to defend the suspects, Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci, who allegedly killed Deborah Samuel.
The defense team was led by Prof. Mansur Ibrahim.
It would be recall that before she was lynched, Deborah was accused of denigrating Islam on a WhatsApp chat platform set up by her coursemates and refused to retract her post after she was asked to pull it down.
A violent street protest followed the arrest of suspects linked to the lynching of Deborah as the protesters demanded their immediate release by security operatives.
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal consequently imposed a 24-hour curfew on Sokoto metropolis on Saturday. He relaxed the curfew on Monday to be observed from dusk to dawn.
