A 25-year old man, Olagunju Waheed, who allegedly entered a church premises with a copy of the Holy Quran, is facing trial at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.
A resident of No. 8, Aje St., Sabo, Yaba, the accused is arraigned on a charge of breach of public peace.
The prosecutor, Insp. Nwosu George, told the court that the accused committed the offence on July 12 at about 80.00 a.m. at St. Dominic Catholic Church, Yaba.
“The accused, armed with a copy of the Holy Quran, was found loitering at the church premises when a security guard approached him and asked what his mission was.
“The accused could not give a satisfactory explanation why he was there and he was immediately apprehended.”
The offence, George noted, contravened Section 166 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused, however, denied the charge.
Ruling on the accused’s bail application, the Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Erinle, granted him bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
The case has been adjourned to August 26 for trial.
So. what exactly is his offence, holding a quran or loitering? This sounds very childish. Both the Chief Magistrate and the Inspector should be relieved of their duties for stupidity. I'm a christian but I have a copy of the quran in my house. Should I then be arrested?
ReplyDeleteWe are talking of displaying Quran publicly in Church compound. I can imgine what we happen if similar thing happens in a Mosque; it will be jungle justice
DeleteEverybody has to be security concious in these days of Boko Haram.
So what offence has this man committed? When the police interrogated him and found nothing suspicious to hold him, they should have let him go. But to charge him with public nuisance because he was carrying a quoran in the church premises is totally insane.
DeleteYou are so stupid and unreasonable. Mr Anoynymois 8:21 pm
ReplyDeleteHow could you go into a religious place of worship and openly display the scriptures of another faith.
The man should be questioned very well
Now if u say reading a Qur'an is wrong for a Christian, hw do u compare both faiths? Haven't u see Imams or Pastors quoting from the two holy book. Anyway, if he had entered the church dear down and was with his holy book, d best I expected is to watch him closely. May b he is disturbed for pasting....but d truth is hw do u convert pple is dey all hav to end in court. I hav been to d Mosque b4 with ma bible during a naming and nothing happen............ Above all only God knows who is clean and will make heaven. Lets reason as one.....Christian or Muslim....peace.
ReplyDeleteThe suspect is up to something evil. He wants to provoke some sort of religious war. I hope this is not a sign of onset of boko haram in the south west. Authorities should take this seriously and be on alert lest we sleepwalk into religious anarchy and boko haramism.
ReplyDeleteYou guys should shut that dirty hole in your face, the news is so disgusting is dis the kind of case the court should be treating? There are many innocent people in the cell awaiting trial. I don't see any offense in what dis man did. God forbid some people mentality
ReplyDeleteSome people are stupid , Can you take holy bible enter mosque?? they will kill you immediately please let us be sincere and you cannot save 2 masters at the same time please?
DeleteI didn't see anything wrong with that, moreover we worship the same God but in different ways, since the man in question did do anything stupid by discredit or preach in the church with his Koran then the case is just a fluke, the IPO don't knw his duties.
ReplyDeleteIdi*t, everything is boko haramism, highly cerebrate have made good points.
ReplyDeletePlease, let's be civilized and read in between lines. The caption of this news is entirely DIFFERENT FROM the content. I guess the news reporter chose a caption that WILL sell. If you are found loitering even in your vicinity with no reasonable excuses. I believe it calls for concern. This is common sense
ReplyDeleteYes it does but it shouldn't have led to court case.
DeleteSome people are stupid , Can you take holy bible enter mosque?? they will kill you immediately please let us be sincere and you cannot save 2 masters at the same time please?
DeleteSome people are stupid , Can you take holy bible enter mosque?? they will kill you immediately please let us be sincere and you cannot save 2 masters at the same time please?
DeleteWe should be moderate and reasonable in analyzing issues. war or fight starts in a lithe way. They didn't say he sat down rather, he was littering the place with QURAN, that is public nuisance, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteBasically... Charging him to court is wrong and a violation of human right of freedom of movement. What should be done at most is to quiz him real hard and keep him under watch. More of secret intelligent thing. What if he was mentally or spiritually disturbed and he needs some help or answers. I think Nigerians need to be more dimensional in the thinking patterns. Whatever the case, May Almighty father protect us all.
ReplyDeleteSo which God are we now serving differently? we are all human and created by 1 God. wakey wakey
ReplyDeleteIt's 2 different gods. One sent his son to save the whole world including anyone who accepts him to be the son of God and accepts that he died and rose on the 3rd day. The other god sent Muhammad and has no son. The 2 gods can't be the same otherwise he will be contradicting himself and confusing humans.
DeleteThe question here should be what were his motives when he went to church with a copy of the Qur'an. From there the of fence could be established. Nothing is wrong with a christian possessing a Qur'an or vice versa,but when the motives become sinister,many things could be wrong with it.
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