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Man Sentenced To Death In Kano For Blasphemy
By Emmanuel Awosika
A Sharia Court in Kano today sentenced a young man, identified as Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death for committing blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad.
Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani, who presided over the court, sentenced Sharif-Aminu to death by hanging after finding him guilty as charged.
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Kano resident, was arrested in March after protesters complained that a song he circulated on WhatsApp was blasphemous. According to them, the song contained verses where the singer made derogatory statements against the Holy Prophet.
Angered by the lack of response to their complaints, the protesters had razed the singer’s family house and had staged a protest at the Kano Hisbah Command. There, they had demanded that the singer be made to answer for his actions, and threatened to take the law into their hands if this was not done.
The Commander, Kano Hisbah Command, had addressed the protesters, explaining that the Command was in control of the situation. He added that that the Sharif-Aminu along with his parents had been put in Police detention.
Sharif-Aminu wasn’t the only one punished by the Sharia Court for blasphemy, however. One Umar Farouq, a resident of Sharada quarters in Kano’s metropolis, received a 10-year imprisonment for making “derogatory statements concerning the Almighty Allah in a public argument.”
