Murder convict to die by hanging in Kano

The killer of the late Kano businessman and Yoruba leader, Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, has been sentenced to death by hanging.

Justice Kabiru Auta of Kano High Court found Abubakar Abdulrahman, 28, guilty of culpable homicide punishable with death.

Abdulrahman was however discharged and acquitted on the second charge of armed robbery.

Abdulrahman was charged with murdering Mr. Bello on the night of June 5, 2014 in his residence at Nasarawa GRA, opposite Kano Race Course by stabbing him in the heart with a kitchen knife.

The prosecution called seven witnesses and tendered several exhibits including the kitchen knife used by the convict to stab Mr. Bello and the victim's Blackberry mobile phone which he had converted to his own use by inserting his own SIM card in it.

The blackberry was part of the circumstantial evidences that nailed the accused.

Counsel to the accused, Mr Adama of the Legal Aid Council had begged the judge to temper justice with mercy because of his aged mother, young wife and son, but the judge declined the plea on the ground that Abdulrahman murdered a breadwinner and showed no remorse during the trial.