Adamu Abdulra’uf and Abdulkadir Wada have each been sentenced to 35 years in prison for causing serious harm and attempting culpable homicide on a six-year-old girl.

Abdulra’uf, 20, and Wada, 21, were convicted and punished by Justice Rabi Umar after pleading guilty to the charge.

Earlier, Mr Sabiu Gumba, the Prosecution Counsel, informed the court that the two defendants, Abdulrauf and Wada, were arrested on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, causing severe hurt, and attempting to commit culpable homicide on August 17, 2021.
The prosecution called four witnesses, including the victim’s father, while the defendants testified only for themselves and called no other witnesses.

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Gumba displayed two of the blades used in the murder, as well as a vial containing the girl’s private parts and a chemical.

On December 30, 2020, the defendants are accused of strangling one Hauwa’u Ya’u in the state’s Jama’are Local Government Area.

Ya’u, who was six at the time, passed asleep before her private area was cut off for ritual purposes.