Police in Kano have commenced investigation into the alleged killing of a nine-year-old child, Najib Kamal by two Almajiri boys in Kuntau, Gwale local government area of Kano state.
The lifeless body of the child was found hung to a gate in his compound last week Thursday and the two suspects have been arrested in connection to gruesome murder of the innocent child.
The Almajiri boys, Sani Musa and Maharazu Yusuf were said to have been on errand duty for the family of the deceased before the incident.
Our reporter gathered that one of the suspects, Sani Musa had been into issues with his mistress over his attitude after he had refused to carry out an errand he had been assigned as a result of which the woman refused to give him food.
According to sources Sani had absconded the house for three days and returned few hours before the incident occurred.
Malama Na’ima Rabi’u, mother of the deceased said she was upstairs and was not aware of anything until evening when she was looking for her child that she was presented his lifeless body.
“I was upstairs sleeping and they were playing down stairs, around evening I sent a maid to call him and his siblings, thinking they were there playing at the gate, but when the girl came back she brought me the corpse of my son Najib, there then I asked his younger brother Nabil what happened and he told me that when he came down he found his brother hung to a rope tied to the gate and that he called one of the almajiri that was washing their clothe outside his name is Maharazu to untie his brother. Maharazu came and brought him down and took him to one of the rooms. After that the Almajiri came upstairs, collected his food, ate and left without telling me anything” She explained.
She said apart from Sani (the Almajiri), there was nobody at home but herself, the deceased and his siblings.
Similarly, the father of the deceased, Malam Kamal Aminu Bala said the boy was confirmed to have died from hanging on arrival at the hospital.
He said when the deceased’s brother explained what happened “We asked Almajiri Maharazu and he confirmed that he met the boy hung to the gate before he untied him and brought him down. He (Maharazu) also confirmed that before he entered the house to untie the lifeless body of the late child he saw the other Almajiri, Sani standing by the door.
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kano police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa who confirmed the arrest, said the suspects are under investigation and would be charged to court after the investigations are concluded.
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