Man Sends A Touching Letter To President Buhari From Poland

Piotr Cywiński, who is a professional historian and directorof the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in Poland, was reported to have issued a letter all the way from the country to the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.


 Piotr Cywiński In a picture at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum


The touching letter sent from Poland contained an appeal for the President to intervene and help with the cancellation of the sentence that was passed on a 13 year-old boy by a Sharia court in Kano, which sentenced the boy to 10-years in confinement.

Speaking further on the issue, the letter addressed the sentenced young boy, Omar Farouq as having being sentenced in August after he had allegedly blasphemed against Allah, while he was in a conversation with his friend.

Following this, the young boy was sentenced by the same Sharia Court which had passed the death sentence of the popular Kano singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, earlier this year for thus same blasphemy the young boy was sentenced.


Thus, Cywiński though his letter requested that the young boy be granted leniency in the court case and should be pardoned from the offence.



The letter read in parts,: "As the director of the Auschwitz Memorial, that commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity”, Cywiński wrote."

Adding that if it were impossible for the young boy to be pardoned by the court, he alongside 119 other volunteers have decided to serve the jail term for the boy by each serving a month in jail.

Letter sent to President Buhari from Poland

However, he added that if the court agrees to pardone the boy, he will personally see to it that the boy is provided funds to further his education, and this way Nigeria will not about a destroyed man but an aware and educated young citizen.