The Younger brother to late Prof. Aliyu Usman Mani, who was killed in a
suicide bomb attack at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) on January
16th, Usman Abbas, has written a letter to the leader of the sect,
Abubakar Shekau, stating that he is a “dead man waiting to go to hell.”
Read the open letter after the cut.
“I listened to your audio message in which you claimed responsibility
for the suicide bomb attack that killed my brother Professor Aliyu Usman
Mani and others during subh (early morning) prayer at the University of
Maiduguri Staff quarters mosque on Monday, January 16, 2017. I am
addressing this letter to you and calling you “dead” because your
filthy, satanic, useless and lost soul is just wandering on earth
waiting to get to hell where you have earned yourself permanent
residency in the deepest and most painful part of it.
Contrary to your claim in most of your video or audio messages, the
innocent people you kill are better than you in the sight of both human
beings and Allah, and you are the one surely going to hell. Your soul
will never smell heaven. The tears I shed on the death of my brother
were for my personal loss. For the deceased, however, I am extremely
happy because he died in a mosque, praying (in ruku’u), fasting on a
Monday and was killed by your bomb. Given a choice, I would not mind the
same type of death. His death was very painful, but I want to assure
you that you cannot stop us from going to the mosque to pray, neither
can you stop us from seeking for and obtaining knowledge and education
(both Islamic and western). We have no doubt lost a brother, father,
grandfather, Professor, gentleman, pillar of support, guardian and a
good man but we have gained a martyr.
We are very proud of what Professor Aliyu Usman Mani achieved in life
and in death, we are certain he died in one of the best possible ways to
exit this world and that his hereafter is even better. In death,
Professor Aliyu’s status was elevated, his popularity soared, his name
heard beyond the academia, beyond the shores of Nigeria, his burial was
attended by hundreds of people including my humble self and others from
all walks of life prayed for him in private and in congregations at
places of worship. You cannot change or take away the good things people
said and are still saying about him neither can you change the bad
things they said and are still saying about you. Even your parents,
children and relations if you have any, cannot be proud of what you are
doing not to talk of the country and Islam as a religion. You can only
deceive the gullible, uneducated in both Islamic and western education
and innocent boys and girls who did not know what they were doing into
carrying out your devilish plans.
If you are convinced that what you are doing is Islam and Almighty
Allah is truly with you, then show your face, operate from a known and
traceable address, use only male adults and do not brainwash small boys
and girls into carrying out attacks on your behalf while you hide like a
rat in a hole and claim heroism afterwards. I say you are already dead
because “alive,” you the killer of Professor Aliyu Usman Mani, cannot
show your face physically, cannot move around freely, cannot sleep
peacefully, cannot command respect willfully. You cannot do anything
normally, you cannot enjoy life fully, you can only live in the bush
with your cousins the wild animals tamely, and will surely die miserably
without the privilege of a proper burial”.
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