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Would Haneefa Ever Get Justice?

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"2ENq1SCZ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Zaid Ayuba Alhaji<&sol;p><div class&equals;"iLJAsh3y" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Talking about Haneefa comes with a lot of pity&comma; a disturbing reminder of a 5 year innocent girl&comma; so weak&comma; harmless and vulnerable&comma; killed by a man who supposed to protect her&comma; making it the most emotionally and psychologically traumatizing crime in recent times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As painful as the whole scenario and as much as we call for JUSTICE for the little innocent soul&comma; let us equally remind ourselves how those responsible for serving the justice act as if they will serve it&semi; only for the whole matter to die down as time passes&period; Based on facts and experience&comma; the case of Haneefa may likely end the same way hundreds of other cases died down miraculously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From 1999 to date&comma; there were several unsolved murders that can never be revisited and can never get the justice they deserve&period; Some of these murders where even high-profile with Presidential orders of investigation&comma; at first they began like thunder&comma; shocking the world and gradually as time passes&semi; they became dead and gone&excl;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"7ugIKUHD" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>In 2001&comma; Chief James Bola Ige was killed on 23rd December&comma; remember&comma; even as he was a Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation&comma; yet he he never got justice up to this day&comma; the suspected killers were later released while the case died as if it never happened&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2022&sol;01&sol;27&sol;nigerian-navy-releases-postings-of-senior-officers&sol;">Nigerian Navy Releases Postings Of Senior Officers<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Have we forgotten about Major General Idris Alkali who was kidnapped on September 2018 and found dead on the 31st October 2018 at Dura-Du village of Plateau State&quest; Even as he was the CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATION in the Nigerian Army Headquarters&comma; yet his case seems to be closed&comma; dead and gone&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let me remind us about one Aisha Abdullahi who was a pregnant woman&comma; raped and killed in Ungogo quarters of Kano on the 21st January&comma; 2016&comma; what happens to the case&quest; Where are the culprits&quest; Imagine such a heinous crime against&comma; humanity&comma; yet no justice for the innocent soul&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the 13th of August 2020&comma; Ibrahim Sarki Yola of the Upper Shariah Court sentenced a 60-year-old Mati Abdu to death by stoning who raped a 12-year-old girl in 2019&comma; has Mati been stoned or he&&num;8217&semi;s just relaxing in prison waiting for the Governor to sign the death warrant&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the 21st February 2020&comma; Justice Ahmad Badamasi of the Kano high court sentenced Rashida Sa’idu to deat&comma; that woman who threw her husband from a storey building&period; Where is Rashida Today&quest; I only want to remind us how killers are indirectly kept alive while their victims were already sent to early graves&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just few months ago&comma; Rahama Husseini&comma; that Woman that killed her husband&comma; was GRANTED STATE PARDON by the Governor of Kano State&semi; with the additional promise that the Kano State Government would support her rehabilitation&period; You can imagine how killers are pampered in the name of democracy and Principles of human right&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In November 19th 2017&comma; Maryam Sanda stabbed her husband to death&comma; Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal High Court FCT convicted her on 4th December 2020&period; Where is Maryam and do you think that she would be served what she served her late husband&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On October 2021&comma; Hauwa&&num;8217&semi;u Habibu in Diso community&semi; Gwale LGA of Kano State hacked her two children to death in Kano just because her husband is marrying a second wife&period; This mockery against lives is intentionally done because the perpetrators are convinced that the criminal justice system may not deal with them in the actual sense they should&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Can you remember the suspected killer of Hajiya Sa’adatu Rimi&comma; the wife of late Governor Rimi&quest; The man was just sentenced to five-years jail term&period; She was murdered in 2006&comma; only for the judgment to be held till Wednesday April 24 2013&period; Most times&comma; prison sentence on suspected murderers only strengthen the criminals after jail terms&comma; they end up becoming more hardened criminals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In November 2021&comma;Timothy Adegoke&comma; a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University&comma; who was killed in a hotel on November 6&comma; 2021 is yet to find justice&period; On 1st December 2021&comma; Sylvester Oromoni&comma; a 12-year-old student of Dowen College Lagos was suspected to be killed&comma; justice is yet to be served&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All of as Nigerians should begin to see that the law empowers the Governors to sign execution warrants in order to create bridges&period; As far as politics is a game of interest&comma; no Governor would sign death warrant&comma; because no Governor would want to be remembered for someone&&num;8217&semi;s death&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Justice in Nigeria can only be gotten by those that are extremely lucky&excl; Since execution of death sentence is relying on the signature warrants of politicians&comma; then the sanctity of human lives is threatened&period; In fact&comma; the political history of Nigeria since 1999 to date&comma; only record two state governors to have executed some few persons on death row&colon; Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau as governor of Kano State&comma; and Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Section 316 of the Criminal Code didn&&num;8217&semi;t spear these murderers&comma; but political influence and negligence continue to only send them to prison without signing the warrant that will send them to where they sent their victims&period; A sane mind will be imagining how persons that commit crimes punishable by death under section 220&comma; 221&comma; 222 of the Penal Code are only kept enjoying in prisons&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even as Nigerians are already demanding for justice for Haneefa&comma; despite Governor of Kano State and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have shown that justice would be served&comma; be reminded that there are currently more than 3&comma;000 &plus; condemned criminals waiting for execution in our prisons&semi; this should remind us that 1st class criminals and terrorists are only caged not killed&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Be reminded that global powers kept campaigning for abolishing death sentence&comma; while our politicians are more afraid of global condemnation than doing what is right&comma; which explain why they stylishly refuse to sign the condemnation of these 1st class criminals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I pray that Hanifa and all victims of extra judicial killings gets justice speedily&period; It only hurt us more and demoralize us to know that getting justice for those killed is almost impossible&comma; may be because it is attached to the approval of politician&comma; it is our duty to remind them that the same way the killer loves his life&comma; so does the victim&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It conclusion&comma; Judges and state governors should fear God and help us get rid off criminal elements&period; It is high time we consider humanity first before legal technicalities and political lobbying when dealing with Kidnappers and killers in general&period; Be merciless to those who have no mercy on human lives&period; We pray for justice for Haneefa&excl;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>May Allah comfort save us all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zaid Ayuba Alhaji<br &sol;>&NewLine;Write from Kano&period; A public affairs analyst&comma; commentator and expert in public policies and administration&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;comradezaid6&commat;gmail&period;com<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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