Man pleads with Kano govt to stop transfer of murdered daughter’s case

  A bereaved father in Kano, Sani Umar, has called on the state government to stop the transfer of his murdered daughter’s case, Aisha Umar, after hearing that a senior lawyer is trying to get the case transferred to another court. Umar said that evidence, including seven witnesses, had been presented in the court and […]

 

A bereaved father in Kano, Sani Umar, has called on the state government to stop the transfer of his murdered daughter’s case, Aisha Umar, after hearing that a senior lawyer is trying to get the case transferred to another court.

Umar said that evidence, including seven witnesses, had been presented in the court and that all identified Fadila Adamu as the culprit, hence that transferring the case would bring it back to the beginning.

He added that most of the witnesses were Fadila’s relatives and that they might change their stories if the case was taken to another court.

City & Crime reports that Fadila had allegedly kidnapped the eight-year-old Aisha from an Islamic school in 2019, after which she left her at her younger sister, Shamsiyya Jaafar’s, house for two days and then for another day at one Aisha Sharu’s house.

She was accused of murdering Aisha on the fourth day by throwing her into a wellin the Sabuwar Gandu neighbourhood in Kano.

She was arrested when investigation by the anti-kidnapping unit through contact tracing located her and that she confessed to the crime and took the police to the site where Aisha’s corpse was retrieved.

On his part, the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Barrister Haruna Isah, said that the case was being monitored and that he would ensure that justice was duly served.