The unlawful trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, which began on Wednesd...
The unlawful
trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem
Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, which began on Wednesday at the Kaduna State
High Court has been adjourned to 25 and 26 January, 2021.
The President,
Media Forum of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim Musa has however said
the two- months adjournment is of great concern to members of the movement
considering the deteriorating health of Sheikh Zakzaky and his wife.
The new date was
fixed following the admission of six witnesses tendered by the prosecution
counsel led by Dari Bayero.
The State
presented two army officers who testified in secret before Justice Gideon
Kurada of the Kaduna High Court on Wednesday.
Read also; At the Court Room of the Illegal & Unlawful Trial of Sheikh Zakzaky
A director from
State Security Services, DSS, was among four witnesses admitted on Wednesday.
The others are
residents of Gyallesu where the Sheikh lived before the army’s attack in
December 2015.
Though the
testimony was given in secret, the officers and other witnesses were put under
cross-examination and they gave evidence of the operation that lasted between
the 12th and the 14th of December 2015.
Dari Bayero
promised the court to bring the remaining witnesses, including a GOC when the
hearing resumes next year.
The Kaduna State
Government unlawfully charged Sheikh Zakzaky and Zeenah with eight counts
bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of
public peace among other charges, to which they both pleaded not guilty on
September 29th, 2020.
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