How Kano businessman strangled his own two months old baby

32 years old Kamal Rabiu has been remanded in prison custody for strangling a two months old baby boy.

Kamal was arraigned before a Kano Magistrate Court on Monday on one count charge of culpable homicide.

Following an application by the prosecutor, Inspector Badamasi Ya'u, Chief Magistrate Mohammed Idris ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution.

Ya’u had told the court sitting in Nomansland, Kano that on Dec. 21, 2015, the Commander of Hisba, a local security outfit reported the matter to the Commissioner of Police.

He said that Kamal Rabiu of Goron Dutse Quarters, Kano, sometime in early 2015, impregnated his  girlfriend, Malama Kaltume Tijjani of Unguwa Uku, Kano.
Subsequently, Kaltume gave birth to a baby boy named Muhammad Kamal.

The prosecution told the court that on December 21, 2015, Kamal went to Nasarawa Hospital to collect the two month-old Muhammad from Kaltume.

“In the struggle that ensued, Rabiu strangled the baby,” Ya’u said.

The case was adjourned till Feb 8th 2015 after the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge.