A statement by the police on Thursday said the school teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, was the one who abducted and killled her.
“Sometimes on the 04/12/2021 at about 20:30hrs, a report was received from a resident of Dakata Quarters, Nassarawa LGA, Kano State that, one Hanifa Abubakar, ‘f’, aged 5 years old, was kidnapped and a ransom of Six Million Naira (N6,000,000.00) was demanded,” police said in a statement by the command spokesman, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa.
Family sources said the teacher who kidnapped her was among the first set of people who came to console her parents after the abduction on December 4, 2021.