22-Year-Old To Die For Killing Stepmother, Sister

By Bukola Kayode

A Kano High Court on Tuesday sentenced 22-year-old Sagiru Rijiyar-Zaki to death by hanging for culpable homicide.

The court deemed Sagiru guilty of stabbing his stepmother Rabiatu Sagir and using a scarf to strangle his sister, Munawara, to death, Punch reports.

Delivering her verdict, Justice Amina Adamu-Aliyu, held that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt.

Adamu-Aliyu, therefore sentenced the convict to death by hanging.