Less than forty-eight hours after the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife were discharged and acquitted by a Kaduna State high court, after over four years of being tried on eight counts of culpable homicide, disruption of public peace and unlawful assembly among others,
the Kaduna State government has filed fresh charges against El-Zakzaky.
Recall that Justice Gideon Kurada had on Wednesday discharged and acquitted Elzakzaky and his wife Zeenat, from the eight charges pressed against them by the state government for lack of merit.
However, not satisfied with the ruling, the state government on Thursday filed seven fresh charges against the IMN leader at the Federal High Court.
According to the state Director of Public Prosecution, Daris Bayero while speaking to the press, the charges border on terrorism and treasonable felony against the state and federal government, explaining that some of the actions of the IMN leader upon which he is now being charged, dated back to pre-2015.
Bayero added that with the fresh charges, the court will consequently issue an order for the arrest of Elzakzaky for him to answer the charges.
