Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has thrown her weight behind the call for capital punishment for the killer of 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar who was allegedly killed by her teacher.
Gatekeepers News had earlier reported that Hanifa was allegedly kidnapped, killed by her school proprietor after he had collected ransom from her family in Kano State, Northern Nigeria.
Aisha supported capital punishment when she shared a video of an Islamic cleric who made the call on Sunday.
She wrote in Hausa that she supports the cleric’s judgement. “We support the judgment of Malam,” the President’s wife stated.
The cleric, in the video, said capital punishment should be meted out on the killer of Hanifa.
“He should be separated from this world the same way he separated this girl from the world and it should be done publicly,” the cleric said in Hausa.
According to him, capital punishment would serve as a deterrent to others who have the intention of carrying out such dastardly acts.
“He should be killed for all eyes to see so that tomorrow, nobody carries out such act,” the cleric added.
