Nigerian Man Jailed For Cursing On Facebook
A man in in the Jigawa state of Nigeria was recently jailed for posting a pointed curse on his Facebook profile about the governor of Jigawa.
A man in in the Jigawa state of Nigeria was recently jailed for posting a pointed curse on his Facebook profile about the governor of Jigawa.
Writing in the local Hausa dialect on January 18, Moukhtar Ibrahim Aminu asked for “divine punishment” to be delivered upon Governor Sule Lamido, a politician who helped form the ruling People’s Democratic Party when Nigeria became a democracy more than a decade ago.
Arrested and held for seven days for defamation, Aminu’s actions carry significant weight in the country from where he hails from, where an ancient animistic tradition jockeys alongside more familiar religious creeds such as Christianity and Islam.
His curse translates into English as: “Allah curse Sule Lamido and all his useless friends.
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