Factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly released a new audio faulting the death sentence a Sharia court in Kano state handed to a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Sharif Aminu, in the state over his blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed.
Aminu who is a member of the Islamic Tijjaniya sect and Faidha group, composed a song blaspheming Prophet Mohammed and circulated it via WhatsApp in March 2020.
Residents of the state got angry when they heard the song and started a protest. They burnt down the singer’s family home and led a procession to the Kano Hisbah Command’s headquarters demanding that he must be tried. The upper Sharia court in the state found him guilty on Monday, August 10, and sentenced him to death by hanging. He was asked to repeal the verdict within 30-days even though he pled guilty.
Humangle reports that Shekau in the audio, slammed the court, stating that ”there is no difference between the…
Source: Linda Ikeji
