Kaduna State Government in 2016.
Justice Shiri Nyom in his judgement discharged and acquitted the sect members of the charges levelled against them as contained in a press statement signed by the President Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim Musa and made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday.According to the statement, Justice Nyoms said the prosecution didn’t prove any of the charges against any of those standing trial.
According to IMN, since the persecution of the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky commenced, the High Courts in Kaduna and Sokoto States, as well as the Court of Appeal have discharged and acquitted 309 members of the Islamic Movement and dismissed the frivolous charges brought against them.