Man Who Killed Yoruba Business Tycoon Based In Kano Sentenced To Death
Category: Kano News
Justice Kabiru Auta of a Kano High Court Wednesday sentenced the killer
of Kano business tycoon, philanthropist and Yoruba Leader, Chief Alh.
Ganiyu Akanbi Bello to death by hanging.
The accused, Abubakar Abdulrahaman AKA Daddy (28) was found guilty on a
count charge of culpable homicide punishable with death. He was
discharged and acquitted in another charge of armed robbery.
Abubakar was accused of murdering Chief Alh. Bello on June 5, 2014 in
his residence on the night of the fateful day at the GRA Nassarawa
opposite Kano Race Course when he stabbed the deceased in the heart with
a kitchen knife.
The prosecution led by Barr. M.M. Sulaiman of the State Ministry of
Justice and assisted by the nominal complainant Counsel, J.I. Macaulay
of Kehinde Olaitan Chamber called seven witnesses and tendered several
exhibits.
The exhibits included the knife used by him to stab chief Bello and the
Blackberry handset of the deceased inside which he inserted his own SIM
card which made the court to indict him as part of circumstantial
evidence.
Making his last plea (Alocutus) for the accused, his Counsel from the
Legal Aid Council, Barr. Adama urged the court to temper justice with
mercy because of his aged mother, wife and children.
The trial judge in his final verdict said that the accused deserved no
mercy having committed a capital offence by murdering a bread winner
like him.
Justice Auta remarked that the accused showed no remorse throughout the
trial. He returned a verdict of hanging by the neck for the accused
until pronounced dead.
Abubakar broke down in tears after the verdict which made his mother to collapse in the open court.
The accused was one-time a staff of the deceased’s hotel.
“He has right of appeal within 30 days,” Justice Auta finally ruled.
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