Kano State woke to a grim reality today as the State High Court delivered a definitive verdict in one of the state’s most harrowing child murder cases, sending a strong warning against violent crime.
Justice Sanusi Ado Ma’aji, presiding over the court on Miller Road, sentenced 35-year-old Hamisu Baita—widely known as Dan’umma Dandago—to death by hanging for the abduction and brutal murder of four-year-old Suyudi Suraj.
The gruesome tragedy unfolded in 2023, shattering the peace of a local community. According to court records, Baita unlawfully infiltrated the victim’s family home, snatched the toddler, and dragged him to a desolate refuse dump situated between the Dandago and Sani Mai Nagge communities. There, in a horrific act that shocked investigators, he ended the child’s life and severed one of his eyes.
Security operatives swiftly apprehended Baita in the wake of the crime, setting the stage for a meticulous and prolonged legal battle.
During the trial, the prosecution team—comprising lead counsel Umma Lawan and Bello Isa Lawal—methodically dismantled the defendant’s denials. They presented an airtight case backed by six compelling witnesses and 12 incontrovertible exhibits that traced the timeline and brutality of the offense.
Despite Baita’s spirited defense and attempts to deflect culpability, Justice Ma’aji ruled that the prosecution had discharged its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The court affirmed that the weight of the physical and testimonial evidence unequivocally pointed to Baita as the lone perpetrator of the heinous crime.
As the gallows sentence is handed down, the ruling brings a measure of judicial closure to a grieving family and a shaken community, underscoring the judiciary’s hardline stance on crimes targeting the most vulnerable.
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