By Idris Saidu
365Daily – A Kano High Court presided over by Justice Usman Na’abba, will on July 28, 2022, deliver judgment in the murder against a school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko, who allegedly murdered a five-year-old pupil.
The is just as the Defence and Prosecution Counsel have adopted their final written addresses.
In February 2022, Tanko and two others; Hashimu Isyaku, 37, and Fatima Musa, 26, were arraigned by the Kano State Government on five counts of criminal conspiracy, attempt to kidnap, abetment, kidnapping and concealing the dead body of 5 year old Hanifa.
They, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Justice Usman Na’abba fixed the date after the Defence and Prosecution Counsel adopted their final written addresses.
Earlier, the defence counsel, Mrs Hasiya Muhammad, in adopting her final written addresses dated and filed on May 31, prayed the court to consider the defendants and discharge them.
“We urge the court to adopt our written addresses as our oral argument in this case,” she said.
The prosecution counsel, Deputy Director Public Prosecution (DPP), Mrs Rabi Ahmad, in her final written addresses dated and filed June 6, prayed the court to convict and sentence the three defendants as charged.
Ahmad argued that the second defendant (Isyaku) is standing trial for concealing dead body contrary to the provisions of Section 277 of the Penal Code and punishable with death under Section 274(b).
“We urge the court to note the content of exhibit 12 (confessional statement) of the second defendant for burying late Hanifa’s corpse,” he said.
Tanko, the proprietor of Nobel Kids Comprehensive College, Kano, was alleged to have kidnapped Hanifa on December 4, 2021, held her hostage in his house at Tudun Murtala for days before killing and burying her in a shallow grave on December 10, 2021.
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