Appeal Court orders prison to produce Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara

Appeal Court orders prison to produce Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano on Monday issued an order to the Nigerian Correctional Service to produce Sheikh Abduljabar Kabara before the court for the hearing of his appeal. The Islamic scholar is in custody following a judgment by a lower court, an Upper Shari’a Court, which sentenced him to death by hanging for alleged blasphemy. When the matter came up for hearing on Monday, the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Lawal-Shuaibu, ordere…