Hanifa: Aisha Buhari okays public execution of killer as youths burn suspect’s school

First Lady Aisha Buhari has backed the call for the execution of Abdulmalik Tanko, proprietor of Noble Kids Academy in Kawaji, Nasarawa Local Government Area of Kano State.

This came as angry youth have set ablaze the school.

Tanko, proprietor of the school, has confessed killing the innocent child with rat poison.

He had dismembered and buried her secretly at one of the branches of the school.

The victim was kidnapped in December and killed shortly after, though her abductors had demanded a N6million ransom.

It was while trying to get part of the ransom that the proprietor of the school was nabbed by security forces.

There has been widespread outrage over the killing, with #JusticeForHanifa trending on social media for days.

In a video, which has now gone viral, Malam Abdallah Gadon Kaya, a Kano-based cleric, asked that Tanko be killed the same way he killed Hanifa.

He said the proprietor should be executed publicly, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje can get this done.

“His (Tanko’s) life is not more than this girl’s life, the way he took her life, his life should be taken also and let it be done publicly so that another person wouldn’t repeat such.”

The First Lady had reposted the video on her Instagram page, expressing support for the cleric’s call.

She wrote “We are behind Mallam’s stance.”

Meanwhile, some youths have burnt down Noble Kids Academy in Kawaji, Nasarawa LGA of Kano State, where Hanifa was attending.

The Kano State government had shut down the school indefinitely and directed parents to enroll their children in other schools.

But in the wee hours of Monday, aggrieved youths stormed the school and set it on fire.

In the interview he granted when he was paraded at the headquarters of the Kano Police Command, Tanko had said he rented the building he used for the school.

He had said there were two branches of the school and that he buried Hanifa in one branch.

Police spokesperson in Kano, Abbdullahi Kiyawa, said no arrest had been made in connection with the arson attack on the school.

He said there was no casualty in the incident, but parts of the school’s building were razed.