Hanifa Abubakar was abducted and murdered by the proprietor of her school in December last year after collecting ransom from her parents
Proprietor of Noble Kids Nursery and Primary School in Kano, Abdulmalik Tanko, has said he was sorry for abducting and killing a pupil of his school, Hanifa Abubakar.
The proprietor sad: ‘I am so sorry,”- after he was paraded by the police in Kano.
The school proprietor who confessed to killing the five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar with a rat poison, also pleaded with her parents to forgive him.
Hanifa was buried by her assailant in the Noble Kids Nursery and Primary School,Kawana, Kano.
Tanko confessed that he killed Hanifa Abubakar to cover his track
after collecting ransom from her parents
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Tanko was paraded before newsmen on Friday, January 21.
While being paraded, he confessed to placing N100 worth of rat poison into a drink he gave Hanifa and then watched her die. He thereafter buried her inside his school compound.
In his confessional video, Tanko dismissed claims that he killed Hanifa for ritual purposes. According to him, he buried her in his school premises because he couldn’t find another secured place to bury her.
He said he abducted Hanifa and demanded ransom from her parents because he was going through financial crisis.
”I just want to plead with the parents. I am so sorry for what I did to them. I have killed their daughter so I am very sorry. This is a life, a life is something precious”.
