A Kaduna State High court will on Tuesday commence the trial of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat currently facing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, and disruption of public peace, among other charges, was denied bail by the presiding Judge, Justice Gideon Kurada during the last sitting on November 7, 2018.
In the application for bail filed on June 6, 2018, El Zakzaky’s lawyer, Maxwell Kyon, told the court that his client’s health had badly deteriorated as a result of injuries he sustained in 2015 and his long stay in the custody of the DSS, hence the need for him and his wife to have access to urgent medical attention.
The prosecuting counsel Dari Bayero, however, opposed the bail application, contending that the reasons advanced by El Zakzkay’s lawyer were not enough to grant him bail.
In his ruling at the time, Justice Kurada said El Zakzkay’s lawyer had failed to support his request for bail with enough medical evidence that would allow the court to exercise its discretion in his favour.
The case was then adjourned to January 22, 2019, for accelerated trial.
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