Two years after their conviction on a murder charge, the killers of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar have approached the Court of Appeal, Kano division, to challenge their death sentence.
Abdulmalik Muhammad Tanko and Hashimu Isyaku were found guilty of culpable homicide in July 2022 by Justice Usman Na’abba of the state high court, who subsequently committed the principal suspects to death by hanging.
Recall how little Hanifa was kidnapped on her way back from Islamiya (Arabic lessons) by Abdulmalik, proprietor of Northwest Preparatory School, where the late Hanifa attended.
In his cruel plot, Abdulmalik, alongside his criminal cohorts, poisoned the innocent girl and subsequently buried her in a shallow grave in the school premises located at Kwanar Yan Ghana in Nassarawa LGA, Kano.
