Hanifa's murder: Court sentences proprietor, accomplice to death
Abdulmalik (left) and Hanifa. Kano State High Court, has sentenced the Proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, who masterminded the kidnap and killing of 5-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, to death by hanging. Tanko's accomplice, Hashimu Ishyaku, was also sentenced to death by hanging by the court Delivering judgment on the case, Usman Na’abba also sentenced Fatima Musa to two years imprisonment. Tanko, proprietor of the school Hanifa attended, was paraded by the police in January 2022, during which he confessed to having killed the girl with rat poison and buried her in a shallow grave. It would be recalled that the trio of Abdulmalik, alongside his accomplice, Isyaku, and Musa, were arraigned before the court, by the Kano State government, on five count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, abetting, confinement and culpable homicide, contrary to section 97, 274, 277, 221 of the penal code. Justice Na'abba sa...