By our reporter/ First lady, Aisha Buhari has lent her voice to the call for pubic execution of Abdulmalik Tanko, the alleged killer of Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil, in Kano state.
The first lady made her position on the issue public via a post on her Instagram handle on Sunday while responding to a video online by one Abdallah Gadon Kaya, an Islmaic cleric.
The cleric had called on the federal and Kano state governments to see to it that the suspect is served capital punishment.
“He should be killed just the way he murdered the little girl. And this should be done openly for everyone to see. Let it serve as a deterrent to others,” Kaya said in Hausa.
Aisha shared the video and captioned it with a statement in Hausa loosely meaning “we support Mallam’s judgement” and called on the attention of the inspector-general of police and attorney-general of the federation to the matter.
Hanifa was kidnapped in December and later killed after her abductors demanded N6 million ransom.
The Kano police command last week arrested Abdulmalik Tanko, a teacher in her school who confessed to abducting and killing her with rat poison.
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