Blasphemy: US calls for launch of Sufi singer Sharif-Aminu in Kano

 The United States has demanded the discharge of Sufi singer
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who’s going through execution on loss of life row over blasphemy
prices.

 

Hon. Riley Barnes disclosed this throughout a listening to organised
by the Africa Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee.

According to Barnes, the US authorities was partaking the
Nigerian authorities and reaching out to Sharif-Aminu’s family members whereas urging
Nigeria to maneuver away from its blasphemy legal guidelines.

He, nonetheless, burdened that the US authorities’s main
goal remained to finish assaults and violence in Nigeria.

“We are actively urgent the Nigerian authorities and
calling the family members of Sufi singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, who sits on loss of life row
over blasphemy prices.

“We proceed to induce the federal government to stop implementing
blasphemy legal guidelines, however our chief objective stays to finish the assaults and violence.

“The US has made it clear that the measure of success will
be fewer assaults and fewer violence,” Barnes stated.

Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was arrested in March 2020 after sharing
music lyrics he had written through WhatsApp.

His lyrics have been deemed “blasphemous,” and a mob subsequently
burned down his household’s dwelling.

He was convicted by a Sharia courtroom in Kano State in a rushed
trial with out authorized illustration, and sentenced to loss of life by hanging in August
2020.

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