The Kano Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Hausawa Filin Hockey sentenced 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif to death by hanging.He was convicted based on Section 382 of Kano penal code of 2000.
Following the incident, protesters burnt down the singer’s family home and led a procession to the Kano Hisbah command’s headquarters. Mr Sharif’s father, Aminu Sharif, had disowned him, saying he was not living at his house when he committed the crime.“I want to categorically inform the general public that blasphemy is not my ideology, and I promise to arrest him and hand him over to security agents whenever he is found.“If I had the authority to punish him by law, I will do that right away,” Aminu Sharif had said of his son.
Mr Sharif, a resident of Sharifai in Kano metropolis, was accused of committing blasphemy against the prophet of Islam in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020. READ MORE👇👇
The Kano Upper Shari’a Court sitting at Hausawa Filin Hockey sentenced 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif to death by hanging.
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