A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Usman Naabba has sentenced the proprietor of Noble Kids College, Abdulmalik Muhammmad Tanko, 38, and two others Hashimu Isyaku, 38, to death by hanging for the kidnapping, and killing of Hanifa Abubakar, a five[1]year-old pupil of Noble Kids College, Kano.
The convicts were convicted to 5 years each for conspiracy. Last year, they conspired and kidnapped the deceased from Sheik Dahiru Bauchi Islamic Foundation in Kano, and killed the innocent girl. After killing the innocent girl, they buried her in a shallow grave in Northwest Preparatory school, located at Kwanar Yan Ghana, in Nassarawa LGA, Kano The prosecution team and the matter in that quarrel later was resolved and the celebration started. Since then Ogbunike became an in-law (nwadiana) to Ogidi.
Everybody dropped his gun, and the fight and gunshots stopped. “Till today, they are brothers, all the merriment during Nwafor festival can’t cause harm, disturbance, sickness, or whatever, as they are now blood-related.
“Nwafor festival is so unique that any Ogidi man or woman will not miss to come and celebrate with his people even if he is in Diaspora.” To buttress his point, he recalled that in those days, a prisoner from Ogidi told the white warders that his people’s Nwafor festival was fast approaching and that he would go to celebrate it and come back.
“They thought he was joking and when the time for him to leave came, he disappeared and landed in his father’s compound, joined his kinsmen to celebrate the festival for the entire days, then it was eight days, and he returned to the prison.
“To the amazement of the white men, that he needed to be trusted by promising to come back, was made one of the warders in the prison. That was how he secured his led by Kano State Attorney General, Musa Abdullahi Lawan, in his effort to prove his case, called eight witnesses and tendered 14 exhibits. The witnesses include the mother of the deceased, Murja Suleiman Zubair, DSS operatives who arrested Abdulmalik,
and Police officers who investigated the case. The exhibit tendered includes confessional statements of the convicts, a photograph of the deceased, a hijab, Islamic school badge among others.
The Prosecution failed to establish the charge of abetment against Fatima but was sentenced to one year for conspiracy and one year for an attempt to commit offence.