An Appeal Division of the Kano State High Court has commenced hearing an appeal filed by Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, challenging the death sentence verdict slammed on him by Justice Ibrahim Sarki Yola of the Upper Shari’ah Court. On December 15, 2022, SaharaReporters reported how an Upper Sharia Court sitting in Kano has sentenced controversial Islamic cleric Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, to death by hanging.
A defendant, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, who is standing trial for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has accused his counsel, Barrister Dalhatu Shehu, of collecting a N2 million bribe to secure his bail. At the resumed hearing before a Kano Shari’a high court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano, Abduljabbar said, “Sometime, Dalhatu met me that the judge told him that if not of two people, he would have released me – my relative, Kabiru and chief judge.
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