Kano court sentences two men to death for murder, motorcycle theft

A Kano State High Court has sentenced 2 men, Hassan Abdullahi and Sani Umar, to decease by hanging for sidesplitting a commercialized motorcycle relation and stealing his motorcycle.

The tribunal heard that the 2 convicts, alongside Zaharaddeen, besides known arsenic Zara, who is inactive connected the run, carried retired the onslaught connected September 10, 2020, on the Madobi–Kubaraci Road successful Madobi Local Government Area of Kano State.

According to the complaint expanse presented by the prosecution, the suspects “agreed to bash an amerciable enactment to wit, conspired to perpetrate offences of Culpable Homicide and Robbery.”

The prosecution besides told the tribunal that the defendants “robbed one, Sulaiman Hassan of his Boxer Motor-Cycle, reddish successful colour aft hitting him with a instrumentality (hoe handle) connected his neck, dumped him, unconsciously successful a atom workplace land, by the road-side.”

The prosecution, led by Barrister Tijjani Ibrahim of the Kano State Ministry of Justice, called 4 witnesses to enactment its case.

One of the witnesses, Amira Abdullahi, told the tribunal that the archetypal suspect gave her a mobile telephone that was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium to the deceased.

The defence la...