5-Year-Old Hanifa Gets Justice As Court Sentence School Proprietor, Others | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Jul 29, 2022
5-Year-Old Hanifa Gets Justice As Court Sentence School Proprietor, Others | READ DETAILS
38-year-old proprietor of Noble Kids Academy in Kano state, Abdulmalik Muhammaed Tanko have been sentenced to death by hanging for kidnapping and murdering 5-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar.
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Al Facts Newspaper had reported that Tanko kidnapped Hanifa on December 4, 2021, requesting for N6 million ransom. While being paraded in January, 2022, Tanko had confessed to killing the deceased with rat poison. READ HERE
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Giving judgement on Thursday, July 28, Justice Usman Naaba of a Kano state High court, sentenced Tanko and his accomplice, Hashimu Isyaku (38) to death.
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They were also sentenced to five years imprisonment for conspiracy.
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Another accomplice, Fatima Jibreel Musa, who Tanko had approached to kidnap Hanifa, was sentenced to one-year imprisonment for conspiracy and one year for an attempt to commit the offence.
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The prosecution team, led by Kano State Attorney-General, Musa Abdullahi Lawan, presented eight witnesses, as well as tendered 14 exhibits.
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The witnesses include the mother of the deceased, Murja Suleiman Zubair, DSS Operatives who arrested Abdulmalik, and Police officers, who investigated the case.
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The exhibit tendered includes confessional statements of the convicts, photographs of the deceased, hijab, and Islamic school badges among others.
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