Malam Ibrahim Sarki Yola, the presiding judge in the case of an alleged blasphemy against Kano cleric, Sheikh Kabara Abduljabbar, has ordered the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria (LACON) Headquarters to provide legal representation for the cleric in the ongoing trial of the defendant.
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This was just as the council said that Abduljabbar who is standing trial on alleged blasphemy is not qualified to be represented by a lawyer from the council.
At the resumed sitting for the continuation of defence on Thursday, the Kano State Coordinator Legal Aid Council, Barrister Mukhtar Labaran-Usman, told the court that he attended the proceeding, in compliance with the court order issued at the last adjourned date.
According to him, “we wrote a letter to the court in respect of the order dated May 23, the council is constrained in handling the case.”
He said that the council is a Federal Government Parastatal established by section 1(1)of the Legal Aid Act 2011.
Labaran-Usman further said the council shall only be granted to a person whose income does not exceed the N30,000 minimum wage per month.
He noted that “The defendant’s income exceeds the national minimum wage and the offence to which he is arraigned is blasphemy.”
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