Kano: Yoruba leader’s killer to die by hanging

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.