A Kano State High Court has sentenced the proprietor of Noble kids College, Abdulmalik Muhammmad Tanko to death by hanging.
38-year-old Tanko and his accomplice, Hashimu Isyaku were sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing five -year old pupil of Nobel Kids College, Hanifa Abubakar.
Thelagostimes recalls that Hanifa was abducted on December 4, 2021, on her way home from Islamiyya and was subsequently killed by the convict, who was her teacher and school proprietor, after demanding N6m ransom, at Dakata, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
The presiding judge, Justice Usman Naabba, in a judgment on Thursday, said the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the duo conspired and kidnapped the deceased from Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi Islamic Foundation, killed and buried her in a shallow grave in Northwest Preparatory School, located at Kwanar Yan Ghana, in Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
Tanko was arraigned alongside Isyaku and Fatima Jibrin before the court by the Kano State government on charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, confinement and culpable homicide contrary to sections 97, 274, 277, 221 of the penal code.
Justice Na’abba also convicted Tanko to five years imprisonment for four count charges leveled against him.