Angry youths set late Hanifa’s school ablaze

Some youths have set on hearth Noble Children College, Warshu Hospital Street, in Kawaji, Kano State, over the kidnapping and killing of a five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar.

The proprietor of the varsity, Abdulmalik Tanko, had earlier kidnapped the little woman and finally killed the pupil regardless of accumulating ransom.

Hanifa and plenty of others have been getting back from an Islamic class when a tricycle supplied to provide them a elevate.

However whereas others had alighted from the tricycle, the motive force had requested Hanifa to remain behind in order that he might additional give her a elevate to her compound.

As an alternative of taking Hanifa to her home, the motive force moderately whisked her away to an undisclosed location the place are household was later reached for ransom.

Tanko had demanded a N6million ransom from the mother and father of the kid and within the means of accumulating a part of the cash, he was arrested.

He had did not disclose that the sufferer had been killed.

When he was arrested on the Kano Police Command headquarters, he instructed journalists that he poisoned the woman with a rat poison that he purchased for N100.

Tanko had earlier confessed that he killed the woman as a result of she might recognise him.

Final Thursday, Mr Tanko led law enforcement officials to the varsity premises the place the stays of Hanifa have been discovered buried in a shallow grave.

The physique had been dismembered earlier than being buried. The stays have been then exhumed for medical examination forward of correct burial by her household.

The Kano authorities had shut down the varsity indefinitely and directed mother and father to enroll their kids in different colleges.

Nonetheless within the wee hours of Monday, aggrieved youths stormed the varsity and set it on hearth.