UPDATE: ON FRIDAY A KANO HOUSEWIFE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND'S 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, AISHA SANI. (PHOTO).
The Kano State High Court, Kano, on Friday, sentenced a housewife, Fadila Adamu, to death by hanging for the murder of her childhood friend’s eight-year-old daughter, Aisha Sani. In 2019, Fadila kidnapped the minor on her way home from Islamiyya school and threw her into a well, causing her death. Aisha’s corpse was discovered in the well at Gandu Albasa Quarters two weeks after she went missing. The defendant, who lived at the Sabuwar Gandu Quarters Kano, was convicted of kidnapping and culpable homicide. Delivering judgement, trial judge Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced the defendant to death by hanging. “I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her d3ath,” he ruled. Earlier, the prosecution lawyer, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on 14 July 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarter...
