Man sentenced to death by hanging in Zamfara for killing his friend over N100


A man identified as Anas Dahiru has been sentence to death after he was found guilty of killing his friend in Gusau.


The Zamfara State High Court has sentenced one Anas Dahiru to death after he was found guilty of killing his friend.

Dahiru was sentenced to death by hanging over the brutal murder of his friend Shamsu Ibrahim, over a dispute they had because of N100 (One Hundred Naira) in 2017.

The presiding judge, Mukhtar Yusha’u, handed out his sentence after carefully considered the details presented by both parties during the trial.


After a thorough examination of the evidence presented before the court, the court reached the conclusion that the accused, Anas Dahiru, was guilty of the charge brought against him.

In a solemn pronouncement, Judge Yusha’u invoked the stipulations of section 221 of the Penal Code, declaring Dahiru guilty of the murder of Shamsu Ibrahim.

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