Nigeria - A Katsina State High Court sitting in Malumfashi sentenced Aminu Ibrahim to death

A Katsina State High Court sitting in Malumfashi today sentenced Aminu Ibrahim to death by hanging, for armed robbery. The offence was committed in Kano State on Sept. 2011 on Kafur-Malumfashi road, where victims were robbed of their valuables. In his Judgement, Justice Abas Bawale held that the prosecution had succeeded in proving its case beyond reasonable doubt and that witnesses had established before the court that Ibrahim was arrested at the scene of the crime during which one of his accomplices was shot dead while others escaped. The convict, on hearing the verdict, immediately attempted to commit suicide in the court's cell room using an iron bar. He was, however, overpowered by prison warders who struggled with him for minutes before pinning him down and dragging him into a waiting vehicle.