Kano High Court sentences man to death by hanging

For sidesplitting of Mubarak Salisu during a robbery incidental involving a Samsung telephone successful Kano, a Kano State High Court has sentenced a man, Abdulaziz Umar, to decease by hanging.

Delivering the judgement connected Monday, the proceedings judge, Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, held that the prosecution had proven its lawsuit beyond tenable doubt, saying that she recovered the suspect blameworthy connected each counts and convicted him arsenic charged.

The incidental took spot erstwhile the unfortunate was attacked and robbed of his Samsung handset valued astatine N100,000 connected October 1, 2020, astatine astir 6:00pm astatine the Race Course successful Badawa country of Kano.

Umar was charged alongside respective accomplices identified arsenic Muyi, Umar Sarki, Diga, Ashosho, and Taduke, who are each presently astatine large.

The prosecution, led by Aisha Salisu, a Deputy Director of Public Prosecution successful the Kano State Ministry of Justice, during the trial, presented 4 witnesses whose testimonies implicated the defendant, achromatic the defence counsel, Ya’u Abdullahi Umar, called lone the convict to attest successful his defence.

According to the charges, “The suspect and his accomplices conspired to rob the vic...