Outrageous: I killed my 5-yr-old student with N100 rat poison — Proprietor confesses
More revelations surrounding the death of a five-year-old, Hanifa Abubakar on Friday emerged as the principal suspect, a school proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko said he killed the innocent girl with N100 rat poison.
Abdulmalik, who claimed he was the proprietor of the school said he killed the girl owing to his financial constraints as he was indebted to the owner of the structure which housed the school.
The principal suspect and father of two, made the confession when he was paraded before newsmen at the Bompai police headquarters on Friday.
According to the suspect, Abdulmalik Tanko, he demanded a ransom of N6 million but was paid N100,000, which, he claimed, was used to settle his teachers.
He said he wanted to move her out of the state but he felt he could be arrested since the news of Hanafi’s kidnap had gone viral.
Tanko also narrated how he masterminded the abduction of the child.
He said, “I picked her at home when she was already sleeping, it was getting to 11pm. I had finished drinking tea when I woke her up. I put the remaining tea in an empty container of BoBo yoghurt, then I poured rat killer poison inside it.
“I told her that I was taking her back to her uncle’s house and on our way, I gave her the drink on the road and she drank it, then we entered one branch of the school, because the school’s branches are two.
“We entered the other branch with her and I told her I was going to pick something inside. She entered and that was where she finally died,” he said.
Tanko also disclosed that he buried her in the school because he was not able to get a secure place to dig a hole and bury her.
The Kano State government has since closed the school indefinitely.
When Daily Trust visited the place earlier, people were seen discussing the incident. The gruesome manner of the five-year-old child has sparked a nationwide outrage.
