By Chinyere Okoroafor
A Kano State High Court on Thursday set aside the 10- year imprisonment passed on13-year-old Omar Farouq, who was convicted for blasphemy by an Upper Sharia Court in August 2020.
It reversed the conviction but ordered a retrial of a 22-year-old musician, Yahaya Shariff, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy by the same Upper Sharia Court about the same period it convicted Farouq.
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The court set aside the sentence passed on the boy and declared the entire Upper Sharia Court’s judgment a nullity.
He said he might appeal against that aspect of the judgment.
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