Justice Kabiru Auta of a Kano High Court on Wednesday sentenced the killer of a Kano- based business tycoon, philanthropist and Yoruba leader, Alhaji Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, to death by hanging. The accused person, Abubakar Abdulrahaman (a.k.a Daddy), 28, was found guilty on one-count charge of culpable homicide, punishable by death, while he was discharged and acquitted in another charge of armed robbery. Abubakar was accused of murdering Bello on June 5, 2014 in his residence at the GRA Nassarawa, opposite Kano Race Course, when he stabbed the deceased in the heart with a kitchen knife. The prosecution, led by M.M. Sulaiman of the state Ministry of Justice, and assisted by the nominal complainant counsel, J.I. Macaulay of Kehinde Olaitan Chambers, called seven witnesses and tendered several exhibits. The exhibits included, the knife he used to stab the deceased and his Blackberry phone. Making his last plea for the accused person, his counsel from the Legal Aid Council, B. Adama, urged the court to temper justice with mercy because of his aged mother, wife and children. punchng.com/kano-yoruba-leaders-killer-die-hanging/ cc lalasticlala.

Good.

Sometimes it's okay to just make the statement short. Thank you Justice Kabiru Auta.

Inject a lot of tramadol into his blood stream before hanging the idiot. . .he will need it in the other side.

Dat lawyer begging for mercy on the ground that the accused has aged mother, wife and children must be very stupid. Is the man he killed not married with kids?

Evil Daddy....

Justice

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If this is true, then this is a very good change. Murder case of less than two years ago concluded in record time with conviction.

Let this serves as deterrent to those goats slitting people's throats all in the name of religion.

Kudos to the trail judge and prosecuting counsels.

i'm always of the opinion that, there is no true justice in cases like this. Hanging his killer won't bring back the dead man, Or take care of the kids he left behind.