A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men, Adamu Aliyu, 22, and Mubarak Abdulsalam, 20, to death by hanging for killing their employer, Dahiru Musa, 32.
The court additionally sentenced a 3rd defendant, Sadiq Sunusi, 19, to seven years in jail for serving to to burn the sufferer’s physique.
Aliyu, from Gaida Yan Kusa Quarters, and Abdulsalam, from Mandawari Quarters, had been discovered responsible of felony conspiracy and culpable murder, whereas Sunusi was convicted of serving to to destroy proof.
Delivering the judgment on Monday, Justice Fatima Adamu stated the prosecution had proved its case past cheap doubt.
The choose described the defendants’ actions, together with poisoning, stabbing and burning the sufferer’s physique to disguise proof, as inhumane and depraved.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel and Kano State Solicitor-General, Salisu Muhammad-Tahir, informed the court that the crime was dedicated on September 29, 2024, at Gaida Yan Kusa Quarters in Kano.
He stated Aliyu and Abdulsalam conspired to kill Musa, who was Aliyu’s employer, by first poisoning him with rat poison earlier than stabbing him a number of occasions with knives.
Muhammad-Tahir additional informed the court that on September 30, 2024, at about 6pm, Sunusi accompanied Abdulsalam to Gaida Quarters, the place they purchased petrol earlier than going to an uncompleted constructing.
He stated Abdulsalam used the petrol to burn the sufferer’s physique, whereas Sunusi, who knew it was a human corpse, failed to report the incident to the authorities.
The prosecution introduced 5 witnesses and several other items of proof, together with knives, confessional statements and a video recording, to help its case.
The defendants had pleaded not responsible to the fees, whereas their lawyer, Mustafa Idris, referred to as on the court to present mercy after presenting their defence.
The court additionally gave the convicts 90 days to enchantment in opposition to the judgment in the event that they had been dissatisfied with the choice.
