Sheikh Abduljabbar Kabara, a Kano-based Islamic cleric famous for his controversial religious commentaries and statements regarded as mortifying the companions and sacrilegious to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a section of the Ulama, has been charged to court for blasphemy.
The Kano State government recently organised a debate between Mr Kabara and other Islamic clerics, and the controversial cleric was declared loser by the judge Professor Salisu Shehu.
A statement by the commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, said that the development followed the receipt of the First Information Report from the police by the Office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, which prepared charges against the cleric.
Mr Kabara was subsequently arraigned on Friday, July 16 before an Upper Sharia Court Judge, Kofar Kudu, presided by Alkali Ibrahim Sarki Yola.
The charges borders on blasphemy, incitement and sundry offences.
The statement added that after the court sitting, it adjourned the case to July 28, while the scholar would remain under police custody until Monday when he would be sent to prison till the adjourned date.
