Anaedoonline.ng understands the child makes the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country, a charge which can carry the death penalty.
Speaking to reporters from hiding, one of the boy’s family members said: “He [the boy] is not even aware of such blasphemy issues and he has been falsely indulged in these matters. He still doesn’t understand what his crime was and why he was kept in jail for a week.