Kaduna state government files fresh charges against El-Zakzaky

The Kaduna State Government has filed fresh charges against the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

This development came on the heels of a verdict by a Kaduna State High Court that discharged and acquitted El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat.

The Kaduna High Court presided by Justice Gideon Kurada had, on Wednesday, ruled that the charges against El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat were not supposed to be filed, as the Kaduna State Government could not arraign someone for a crime that was not an offence at the time.

Justice Kurada had found that the charges were filed against El-Zakzaky and his wife in 2018 pursuant to the Penal Law enacted by the state government in 2017 over an alleged offence committed in 2015.