A Kano State High Court has sentenced two males, Aliyu Adamu and Mubarak Abdussalam, to dying by hanging for killing an aged man, Alhaji Dahiru, in Yankusa, over his land paperwork.
The court docket additionally sentenced their confederate, Sadik Sanusi, to seven years’ imprisonment for his involvement within the incident.
The Kano State Government had introduced the three defendants earlier than the court docket on expenses of felony conspiracy, homicide and concealing against the law.
Ruling on the case, Justice Fatima Adamu of Court 18 sitting at Miller Road, held that the prosecution had established the allegations towards the defendants via proof offered throughout the trial.
The court docket discovered that Adamu and Abdussalam stabbed Dahiru to dying, whereas Sanusi allegedly conveyed them to the scene utilizing his industrial tricycle.
Evidence earlier than the court docket additionally confirmed that the sufferer’s physique was burnt after the killing.
The prosecution, led by Barrister Salisu Muhammad Tahir, informed the court docket that the defendants deliberate and executed the crime in a bid to acquire the deceased’s land possession paperwork.
Justice Adamu consequently sentenced Adamu and Abdussalam to dying by hanging, whereas Sanusi was handed a seven-year jail sentence.
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