A Kano State High Court on Thursday sentenced the proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, to death by hanging over the killing of Hanifa Abubakar.
Tanko, the principal suspect in the late girl’s saga, was said to have masterminded her kidnap and the subsequent gruesome killing of the 5-year-old school girl.
The presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, also sentenced Tanko to five years imprisonment for the four-count charges leveled against him.
The tragic case of Hanifa stirred outrage across the country last year. Kano State Government then ordered the schools closed. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje also vowed that he would not waste time in signing Tanko’s death sentenced should the court make such pronouncement.
Hanifa, until she was kidnapped and killed was a pupil of Noble Kids Academy – a school located in Kwanar ‘Yan Gana in Tudun Murtala Quarters in Nassarawa Local Government Area of the state.
She was said to have been abducted by Tanko, who, working with others, demanded that her parents should pay ransom to secure her release from captivity. But for whatever reason, Tanko decided to kill her in December last year.
