A video has emerged of 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar when she was still alive.
A teacher in a private school said to be one of Hanifa’s teachers (Abdulmalik Tanko) has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and killing her.
Family sources said he was among the first set of people who came to console her parents over the abduction.
“He was full of tears when he visited the family to console them over the abduction,” said the uncle of the girl, Suraj Sulaima
According to him, the abductor first took her to his wife, but the wife declined to keep her.
Her remains were discovered at a private school in Tudunwada, Nasarawa local government area of Kano.
A statement by the police on Thursday said the school teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, was the one who abducted and killed her.
In the video which has now gone viral, 5-year-old Hanifa is heard telling people to protect themselves.
She said in Hausa language: ‘“We should protect ourselves, we should follow the rules, we should protect our health Arewa is our own.”
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