Some Kano youths have burnt down a school owned by the teacher/proprietor who kidnapped and killed 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar.
A local source said the incident happened despite the police guiding the building.
Elendu Reports learnt that the proprietor who is now in police custody rented the building.
Hanifa was abducted around 5 p.m. by some unknown men, one of whom was later identified as her teacher, who had promised to take her home in a tricycle but fled with her, according to her uncle, Suraj Zubair.
The kidnappers demanded ransom, and one of them was apprehended while attempting to retrieve the money from a nearby garbage can where he had asked for it to be placed.
According to the arrested suspect, the girl was poisoned and her body was placed in a polythene bag. After a police investigation, the body was discovered.
A statement by the Kano state Police Command on Thursday confirmed that Hanifa’s school teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, was among the suspects who abducted her.
“Sometime on the 04/12/2021 at about 2030hrs, a report was received from a resident of Dakata Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State that, one Hanifa Abubakar, ‘f’, aged 5 years old, was kidnapped and a ransom of Six Million Naira (N6,000,000.00) was demanded,” SP Abdullahi Kiyaw, the command spokesperson said in the statement.
The police spokesperson also said Hashim Isyaku and Fatima Jibreel Musa, from Tudun Murtala Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State, were also arrested by a team of the Department of State Service (DSS) Kano State in connection with the case.
“On investigation, Abdulmalik confessed that the victim, Hanifa, is his student at a private school in Kwanar Dakata, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State. He kidnapped her and took her to his house where he contacted her relatives and demanded a ransom of Six Million Naira (N6,000,000.00). On the 18/12/2021, having realized that, the victim recognized him, he claimed to have poisoned her to death, conspired with one Hashim Isyaku, ‘m’, took and buried her in a shallow grave located at the private school premises located at Kwanar ‘Yan Gana, Tudun Murtala Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State,” the statement reads in part.
The police spokesperson said the case will be charged to court upon completion of investigation.
