He is the spiritual leader of Anbariya Sunni Community in Ghana.
He succeeded Afa Ajura, who died on 22 December 2004.
[1] Zakaria studied at the Islamic University of Madinah in the 1970s after receiving a scholarship.
He returned to the Institute to teach after he graduated in 1985 with a BA in Islamic law and an M.A.
[2] Zakaria served as an Imam in Canada from 1997 until May 2007, when he returned to Ghana to head the Anbariya Islamic Institute.