An Upper Sharia Court, Rijiyar Lemo in Kano State has sentenced a woman and eight others to death for blasphemy.
A statement by the Registrar, Kano Sharia Court of Appeal signed by one Alhaji Nasiru stated that eight persons were found guilty in accordance with section 110 and 302 of the penal code procedure, Kano state.
An Imam Abdul Nyas, Hajiya Mairo Ibrahim, and 10 others were accused of making blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed on May 5, 2015, at a religious gathering in Kano municipal area.
The controversial Sheikh Abdul Nyas is of Haqiqa (Realist) group, a mystical branch of Tijjaniyya movement with its headquarters in Senegal.
When the accused persons appeared in court on May 22nd, thousands of youths who stormed the court to witness the proceedings burnt down the Sharia court in Rijiyar Lemo.
This development may have forced government to conduct the trial in secret.
But while the accused were in detention, irate youths stormed and demolished Sheikh Abdul Nyas’ residence located at Gaida, Kumbotso Local Government Area of the municipality.
The statement further disclosed that Al Qassim Abubakar, Yahaya Abubakar, Isa Abubakar and Abdullahi Abubakar were discharged and acquitted by the court in tandem with section 404 of Sharia criminal procedure.
But today, the Sharia court in Kano secretly confirmed the death sentence to Abdul’aziz Dauda known as Abdul Nyas after all the evidence showed that he blasphemed against Prophet Mohammed.
Photo: Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
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