Hanifa: Court Sentences Abdulmalik, Kano School Proprietor To Death
The Kano State High Court today sentenced the Proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North West Preparatory School, Abdulmalik Tanko, the principal suspect who masterminded the kidnap and killing of 5-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, to death.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, sentenced him to death by hanging while delivering his judgment on Thursday.
Hanifa Abubakar was born in 2016.
Related: Missing Kano girl’ Hanifa killed by kidnappers despite collecting ransom
AsphericNews reported the abduction of Hanifa on December 4, 2021, on her way home from Islamiyya and subsequently discovered to have been killed by the convict, who is her teacher and school proprietor, after demanding N6m ransom, at Dakata, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State.