Man Killed In Abuja For Urinating Near Mosque

Tension is mounting among youths in Jiwa and Gwagwa communities inAbuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) over the killing of a middle-aged man yesterday in Jiwa for urinating near a mosque, locatedin the community.According to an eyewitness, the man, whose name was not immediately disclosed to newsmen,was passing through one of the streets in the village, and then decided to urinate in a drainage, close to a mosque.However, just as he was doing that, a man who was sitting at the front ofthe mosque and watching him, picked a stone and threw at him.Blueprint gathered that when the man had finished urinating, he picked the same stone and threw it back at the same man.This action prompted some youths who were at the mosque to descendon him and gave him the beating ofhis life.He was said to have fainted and wasrushed to a private hospital in Gwagwa village, where he was pronounced dead by doctors in the hospital.Our correspondent also gathered that it took the intervention of the divisional police officer (DPO), Gwagwa Police Station, and some other prominent persons in the two communities to stop the youth, who wanted to retaliate.However, every effort to reach the FCT Police Public Relations officer (PPRO), Anjuguri Manza, for comments on the matter proved abortive.

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