A High Court in Minna has sentenced Abubakar Muhammad-Buba to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of killing his father.
The court arraigned Abubakar on October 9, 2023, on charges of murder, theft, and others.
The Korokpa police unit in Chanchaga village arrested Muhammad-Buba when he came to collect money from the sale of his father’s land.
According to the case that was presented in court, Muhammad-Buba stabbed his father with a knife, causing him to die, and then dismembered his body, hiding the remains in a bush before throwing them near the Tagwai Dam water source in Chanchaga.
Afterward, Muhammad-Buba went to inform his father’s close associate and the head of the state’s mineral extraction association, Naje Mohammed SD Mambo, that his father had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom.
After he received the ransom money, Muhammad-Buba further informed his father’s associate that the kidnappers had released his father, but he was injured and needed treatment at Gwagwalada hospital.
Later, Mambo discovered that Muhammad-Buba had been lying to him, which prompted him to report to the police.
The presiding judge, Mohammed S.A. Mohammed, sentenced Muhammad-Buba to life imprisonment because the prosecution established in court that he was the one who killed his father.
Mohammed stated that given the gravity of the murder committed by Muhammad-Buba, he could have given him the death penalty, but in a show of leniency, he opted for life imprisonment instead.