NewsKano Cleric Gets Aug. 18 Re-Arraignment For Blasphemy

Kano Cleric Gets Aug. 18 Re-Arraignment For Blasphemy

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July 28, (THEWILL) – A Kano Upper Sharia Court sitting at Kofar Kudu on Wednesday fixed August 18 for the re-arraignment of a cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara, for an alleged blasphemy offence.

Blasphemy charge, under Section 382 of Kano State Penal Code Law 2000 as amended, is a capital offence, which attracts maximum punishment of death upon conviction.

Nasiru-Kabara is to be charged with blasphemy, incitement, and sundry offences according to the First Information Report (FIR) from the police by the Office of the Attorney General, which prepared the charge against the cleric.

He was first arraigned before the court on July 16, but he pleaded not guilty.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Aisha Mahmoud, told the court that the state had new information concerning the case.

Mahmoud urged the court to adjourn the case to enable the prosecution to file a fresh charge against the Defendant and present witnesses.

Responding, counsel to the Defendant, Saleh Muhammad-Bakaro, prayed the court to compel the prosecution to furnish him with the names and addresses of the witnesses, citing Section 204 of Kano State Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2019.

He also prayed the court to order the prosecution to provide all alleged audio and video clips and documents.

The Judge, Malam Ibrahim Sarki-Yola, overruled the request of the defence counsel to furnish him with a list of witnesses and other documents.

Sarki-Yola said the defence counsel should wait for the charge to be read to the Defendant before seeking for the prosecution’s witnesses’ names and other documents.

He urged all the counsel to respect each other and guard their utterances.

“This is a court not a marketplace,” he said.

Sarki-Yola, who adjourned the case until August 18 for re-arraignment, however, ordered that the cleric be remanded in a correctional centre.

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