Kolapo Alapinni, the counsel to a Kano-based singer who was accused of blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad, has written to the National Assembly, complaining that his client has been unjustly detained for four years based on the Sharia law.
Mr Alapinni made his complaint in a letter dated 31 October, addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Abbas Tajuddeen.
In the letter, he also urged the lawmakers not to support a bill seeking to expand the powers of Sharia law in some northern states.
The Kano singer, Aminu Yahaya-Sharif, was accused of committing blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020.
He was sentenced to death in August 2020 by a Kano Upper Shari’a Court after he was found guilty based on Section 382 (b) of the Kano penal code of 2000.
But, a Kano State High Court later quashed the death sentence and ordered a retrial by the same Shariah court after Mr Yahaya-Sharif filed an appeal on the…