A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men, Hassan Abdullahi and Sani Umar, to death by hanging for killing a commercial motorcycle operator and stealing his motorcycle.
The court heard that the two convicts, alongside Zaharaddeen, also known as Zara, who is still on the run, carried out the attack on September 10, 2020, along the Madobi–Kubaraci Road in Madobi Local Government Area of Kano State.
According to the charge sheet presented by the prosecution, the suspects “agreed to do an illegal act to wit, conspired to commit offences of Culpable Homicide and Robbery.”
The prosecution also told the court that the defendants “robbed one, Sulaiman Hassan of his Boxer Motor-Cycle, red in colour after hitting him with a stick (hoe handle) on his neck, dumped him, unconsciously in a rice farm land, by the road-side.”
The prosecution, led by Barrister Tijjani Ibrahim of the Kano State Ministry of Justice, called four witnesses to support its case.
One of the witnesses, Amira Abdullahi, told the court that the first defendant gave her a mobile phone that was later confirmed to belong to the deceased.
The defence lawyer, Barrister Tajuddeen A. Abdullahi, presented the defendants’ case and called one witness.
In her ruling, Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu held that the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced Hassan Abdullahi and Sani Umar to death by hanging.
