On Thursday, an Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara, was sentenced to death by hanging by a Kano Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kofar Kudu, Kano State.
Ibrahim Yola, the judge, delivered the verdict after a two-hour court session.
The court also barred radio and television stations from broadcasting the cleric’s works.
Similarly, the judge ordered the state government to seize Abduljabbar’s two mosques.
The judgement was coming 15 months after the trial of the cleric before the Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Kofar Kudu, presided over by Justice Yola.
Kabara was tried and sentenced to death on the issue bordering on blasphemous statements against the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), an act described as capable of inciting public peace.
He was charged in July 2021 by the Kano state government.