Yahaya Sharif-Aminu
By Our Reporter
Respite seems to have come the way of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, the Kano singer who was sentenced to death by an Upper Sharia Court for blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad as a Kano State High Court on Thursday nullified the judgement of the Upper Sharia Court,.
The two judges, Justice Nuradeen Sagir, who is akso the state chief judge and his co-panellist Justice Nasiru Saminu ruled that the first trial was full of irregularities and that the appellant was not given a fair legal representation.
The judges submitted that the judgement by the Sharia Court contravened section 2-6-9 of the ACJN and that was done in nullity.
They ordered that the case be re-tried at the same court but that the appellant be given a fair hearing and full legal representation.
