A high Court sitting in Kaduna led by Justice Gideon Kurada , has discharged and acquited leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat.
El-Zakzaky and his wife stood trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, among other criminal charges since December 2015, after a clash between his followers and convoy of the then Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai in Zaria.
Justice Gideon Kurada had fixed July 28 for ruling in the no-case submission filed by Zakzaky
after the prosecution and counsel to the defendants addressed the court on the no-case submission prayer
After the secret trial, counsel to Zakzaky, Marshal Abubakar, who briefed journalists said the court upheld their no-case submission and agreed the case lacks merit.
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