A Kano State High Court has again sentenced two men to death by hanging for the murder of a newly wedded groom, just months after the same convicts were handed similar punishment in a separate case.
Justice Amina Adamu-Aliyu of the Kano High Court on Tuesday sentenced Aliyu Hussaini and Amir Zakariyya to death for the killing of Yazid Haruna, who was stabbed to death during a robbery attack in Kano.
The convicts, Hussaini of Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters and Zakariyya of Unguwar Malam Quarters in Kumbotso Local Government Area, were found guilty of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide.
The prosecution counsel, Mr Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, had told the court that the defendants committed the offence on June 11, 2025, at about 2:47 a.m. at Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters.
According to him, the duo conspired and armed themselves with long knives and a machete before attacking the victim.
“The defendants robbed the victim of his two mobile phones and N19,500 cash and caused his death by stabbing him in the stomach, chest and head,” the prosecutor said.
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The prosecution called three witnesses and tendered medical reports which were admitted as exhibits to establish its case. The defendants, however, denied the allegations.
Abba-Sorondinki said the offences contravened Sections 97(1), 298(c) and 221(a) of the Penal Code Laws of Kano State.
In his defence, counsel to the convicts, Mr Haruna Saleh-Zakariyya, presented them to testify and pleaded with the court for leniency.
In her judgment, Justice Adamu-Aliyu held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Describing the act as inhuman, the judge lamented the rising cases of phone-related robberies. She subsequently sentenced the convicts to one year imprisonment each for conspiracy, life imprisonment for armed robbery, and death by hanging for culpable homicide.
The court had earlier, on October 20, 2025, sentenced the same convicts to death for killing a lecturer in a similar phone robbery incident.
