By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
Justice Usman Naabba of the Kano State High Court has sentenced the proprietor of Noble Kids College, Abdulmalik Muhammmad Tanko, 38, and one Hashimu Isyaku, 38, to death by hanging.
They were condemned to death for kidnapping and killing Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil of the school.
Justice Na’abba also convicted Tanko to five years imprisonment for four-count charges leveled against him.
Stonix News had reported that last year, the convicts conspired to kidnap Hanifa from Sheik Dahiru Bauchi Islamic Foundation in Kano, and killed the girl.
The five-year-old girl was then buried in a shallow grave in Northwest Preparatory School, located at Kwanar Yan Ghana, in Nassarawa Local Government Area, Kano.
The prosecution team, led by the Kano State Attorney General, Musa Abdullahi Lawan, in his effort to prove his case, called eight witnesses and tendered 14 exhibits.
The witnesses included the mother of the deceased, Murja Suleiman Zubair; DSS operatives who arrested Abdulmalik, and police officers who investigated the case.
The exhibit tendered included confessional statements of the convicts, a photograph of the deceased, a hijab, and an Islamic school badge, among others.
The prosecution failed to establish the charge of abetment against Fatima, a nursing mother, but she was sentenced to one year for conspiracy and one year for attempting to commit the offence.
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