Kano Court Sentences Chinese National To Death For Killing Ex-Girlfriend

A Kano State High Court sitting at Miller Road, Kano metropolis, has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death by hanging for killing his former girlfriend in 2022.

Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji, in a ruling on Tuesday, said the accused was found guilty of the offence, and consequently convicted and sentenced to death by hanging till he breathed his last.

Geng-Quangrong was arrested and remanded by the police for culpable homicide in September 2022 over the murder of his 22-year-old former girlfriend, Ummukulsum Buhari, at her residence in Janbulo quarters, Kumbotso LGA of Kano State.

The prosecution stated that the offence contravened the provision of Section 221(b) of the Penal Code Law.