Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has paid a condolence visit to the family of Hanifa, the five-year-old girl that was found murdered in Kano, Northern Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that Osinbajo paid a visit to Hanifa’s family after attending the 53rd conference of the National Association of Law Teachers, held in Kano on Tuesday,
Hanifa was declared missing in December 2021. In January, the Proprietor of the school she attended, Abdulmalik Tanko, confessed to killing her with rat poison after keeping her in captivity for weeks.
Tanko confessed that he kidnapped the girl on her way from school and demanded the sum of N6 million from her parents as ransom.
However, he collected N100,000 before Hanifa was killed, adding that “I used N71,000 to pay the staff members of the other branch”.
In a statement signed by the spokesperson to the vice-president, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo expressed condolences to the family on behalf of himself and President Muhammadu Buhari.
The father of the slain schoolgirl, Abubakar Abdulsalam expressed appreciation to the vice-president for the visit.
“I am rather speechless. I don’t have enough words to quantify my joy and gratitude over the visit of the vice-president to my family to condole me,” he was quoted as saying.
“As I told him, it should be the other way round. The vice-president is our father. We are supposed to go and pay him a visit, not him coming to us. However, I am grateful; I am sincerely honoured. The only thing I will say is to pray for him and the entire nation that peace will reign.”
