Man to die by hanging for killing 12-year-old

Cartoon of a man hanging from a tree while the neighbors are watching. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Minna High court has sentenced a 42 year old man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of killing a 12 year old Shamsideen in a bush in Rafi local government area of Niger state.

Justice Aisha Bawa Bwari who handed down the judgment in the case which has lasted 4 years said the convict Mohammed Haruna contravened sections 221 of the penal code.

While delivering her judgment Justice Aisha Bwari said the court examined the surrounding circumstances of the case and found that the proper evidence arrived at had shown without any iota of doubt that the first accused person and no one cause the death of the deceased.

She said further that the circumstantial evidence adduced by the prosecution was convincing.

According to her “it is in the light of the foregoing that the court finds finds the first accused Mohammed Haruna guilty of the offence of culpable homicide punishable under section 221.

“You are to be hanged by the neck until you are dead”.

Justice Bwari however discharged the second accused in the case Musa Ahmadu for want of enough evidence for his conviction.

In the convicts confessional statement tendered in court by the prosecution Mohammed Haruna said he was hired by a ritualist Malam Musa Yakila to bring a human part for N2m.

Yakila according to the statement wanted to send the human parts to his customers in Yola Adamawa state.

It was after the agreement was struck that he Haruna lured the deceased into the Shambua forest in Kagara, the headquarters of Rafi LGAwhere he hit him with a stick resulting in his death.