Housewife to die by hanging for kidnapping, killing 8-year-old girl in Kano

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Fadila Adamu, a housewife, was found guilty by a Kano State High Court of kidnapping and killing an eight-year-old girl by tossing her down a well and hanging her.

The defendant, who lived in Kano’s Sabuwar Gandu Quarters, was found guilty of both culpable homicide and kidnapping.

In his ruling on Friday, Justice Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale condemned the defendant to death by hanging after concluding that the prosecution had established its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

“I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her death,” Muhammad-Ubale ruled.

According to NAN, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, the prosecution’s attorney, informed the court that the defendant had committed the crime on July 14, 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarters in Kano.

He claimed that the defendant abducted the minor and brought her to her home at approximately 4:45 p.m.

“The defendant told her sister that the deceased was the daughter of her friend, whose mother had travelled to Ghana, and asked her to keep the child until she returned.

“On July 17, 2019, at about 6.30 pm, the defendant caused the death of the minor when she threw her into a deep well situated in the Tukuntawa Quarters Kano,” he said.

In addition to the defendants’ testimony and a medical report attesting to the victim’s demise, Abba-Sorondinki called seven witnesses.

However, the defendant denied committed the crime.

Nonetheless, the prosecution claimed that the offense violated Penal Code Sections 274(b) and 221(a).

The defendant was one of four witnesses called by defense attorney Zulaihat Tata to testify on her behalf.

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