An Adamawa High Court sitting in Yola on Wednesday, November
18, sentenced a cattle rearer, Bappa Alti, to death by hanging for
killing his 5-year-old son for N1 million, IgbereTV reports.
The
state High Court VII presided over by Justice Fatima Ahmed Tafida,
convicted Bappa for causing the death of his son by hitting him with a
rearing stick and thereafter chopping off his head with a cutlass.
The
convict who was 24 as at the time of the incident, lured his son, Buba,
to the farm on July 13, 2013 in Ganji suburb of Gombi Local Government
of Adamawa State and beheaded him.
When the convict's father,
Alhaji Guza enquired the whereabouts of his grandson, Bappa told him
that he left the child behind in the farm and he would return later.
Days
rolled by and the boy did not return from the farm which made Alhaji
Guza to lodge a complaint at the Gombi divisional police station where a
search party was commissioned.
The search led to the discovery
of the beheaded decomposing body of Buba under a tree in the farm
covered with leaves. Baffa was later arrested and on interrogation, he
claimed that one Alhaji Sange Hassan, told him to bring a human head for
N1 million.
He confessed to committing the act, saying he
intended using the money to raise the status of his father, mother and
his family. Alhaji Hassan, however, denied the allegation, insisting
that it was a set up aimed at blackmailing his person.
Bappa Alti
was earlier arraigned before court for culpable homicide punishable
with death contrary to section 221 of the penal code law.
After
evaluating all the evidences which include the severed head of the
deceased, the cutlass used to cut off the head, and voluntary
confessional statement of the accused, the presiding Judge declared that
without iota of doubt, the suspect actually masterminded the killing of
his son thereby committing an offence contrary to section 221 of the
penal code law and therefore sentenced him to death by hanging.
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