Prof Achi: Pantami was Chief Imam of ATBU mosque when my son was murdered
Following the disturbing stories about Dr. Isa Pantami’s radical activities, a new revelation has emerged about how, as Chief Imam of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi mosque, his preaching directly contributed to the brutal murder of a 400-level undergraduate, Sunday Achi, who was the leader of the ECWA Student Ministries (ESM) in the campus.
What was his crime? Sheik Pantami said that distributing a Christian tract blasphemed Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.
On December 9, 2004, that happened.
According to the plot, Achi was dragged out of his room by Muslim fundamentalists at Pantami’s request, taken to a remote location inside the school grounds, and stoned to death.
Prof. Samuel Achi, the martyr’s father, revealed the specifics of his son’s death in an exclusive interview in Kaduna.
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He was strangled to death inside the mosque where Pantami held court, not stoned, he said.
He insisted that there was nothing blasphemous in the tract his son and his colleagues shared that should warrant a death sentence.
Prof. Achi described how the former governor of Kaduna State assisted in the retrieval of his son’s body from Bauchi for burial in Kaduna by coordinating with Bauchi State Governor Adamu Muazu.
Prof Achi told TheNiche what he has not told anyone else in the last 17 years.
“One thing I know that you people (media) got wrong was that my son was not stoned to death. He was strangled inside the mosque and they threw the corpse outside the university mosque.”
