Based on the judgment pronounced by the court on Thursday, the convict was thereafter given 30 days within which to appeal the judgment
An Upper Sharia court in Kano on Thursday sentenced Kano Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of committing blasphemy.
This was just as Sheikh Kabara said that he would not beg for leniency, saying that “I am ready to die and I will die like a hero.”
In the judgement that lasted over two hours, Khadi Ibrahim Sarki Yola ruled and said that “this Honorable Court is convinced that the prosecution counsels had proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt, thereafter, the court has convicted the defendant of all the charges leveled against him, hence, sentenced him to death by hanging.”
Based on the judgment pronounced by the court on Thursday, the convict was thereafter given 30 days within which to appeal the judgment.
Earlier, during the court session, Counsel to the defendant, Barrister Aminu Ado Abubakar, had prayed the court to accord leniency to the accused person for he did what he did out of ignorance.
But immediately, Sheikh Kabara stood up and told the court he did not know the lawyer who claimed to be his counsel.