Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has demanded the public execution of school proprietor, Abdulmalik Muhammad Tanko, who kidnapped and murdered Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil under his care.
Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids Comprehensive College, Kwanan Dakata in Kano State has confessed to the kidnap and subsequent killing of the minor with rat poison.
The First Lady on her verified Instagram page expressed support for Tanko’s public execution after a popular Kano-based Islamic cleric, Mallam Abdalla Gadon Kaya, called for the same.
“We are behind mallam’s stance,” Aisha Buhari said in herpost .
In a now-viral video, Gadon Kaya had charged President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to have ‘Tanko killed the same way he killed Hanifa.’
Gadon Kaya further said that Tanko’s life is not better than that of the minor, as such he should be executed publicly.
Also private school proprietors have called for his immediate prosecution.
There has been widespread outrage over Hanifa’s murder, with #JusticeForHanifa trending on social media for days.
Hanifa Abubakar was kidnapped on December 4, 2021, and murdered two weeks later; her body was dismembered and buried on her former school’s premises.
Tanko was arrested by the police while trying to collect the N6million ransom he demanded from little Hanifa’s parents.
