A Kaduna State High Court has discharged and acquitted 91 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN).
The presiding judge, Justice Hajaratu Gwada, acquitted the defendants of
the charges filed against them by the state government in her judgement
delivered on Friday.
The freed members of the Shiite group were arrested during a clash with soldiers in Zaria in December 2015.
They were arraigned on five counts of criminal conspiracy, unlawful
assembly, culpable homicide, disturbance of public peace, and causing
grievous hurt.
During their trial, the defence counsel had filed a no-case submission
before the court on the grounds that his clients were innocent.
He also stressed that the state government had failed to prove its allegations against them beyond a reasonable doubt.
Giving her judgement, Justice Gwada struck out all the charges filed against the IMN members and acquitted them.
She held that the decision was as a result of the prosecutor to prove
the allegations levelled against the defendants beyond a reasonable
doubt.
In its reaction, the state government rejected the judgement which it described as ‘erroneous‘.
The State Director of Public Prosecution, Daris Bayero, told Channels
Television that the state would appeal the judgement at a higher court
until justice was served on the defendants.
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