A Kano Senior Magistrate Presided over by Justice Ibrahim Sarki Yola has sentenced Sheik AbdulJabar Nasiru Kabara to death by hanging for blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam.
The Magistrate found Sheik AbdulJabar
Nasiru Kabara guilty on all charges filed against him by the state government,
where he was accused of making unremarkable statements against the prophet
Muhammad.
The defendant, in adopting his final
written addresses dated and filed Sept.20, urged the court to dismiss the case
filed by the Kano State Government against him and order the state to apologise
to him.
But the prosecution counsel, Mamman
Lawan-Yusufari, SAN, closed the case after four witnesses testified while the
defendant presented one witness and tendered 24 books and memory card evidence
to prove his case.
The defendant presented himself as a lone
witness.