COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF EX-KATSINA COMMISSIONER RABE NASIR
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
The Katsina State High Court has sentenced two men to death for the 2021 murder of a former Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Rabe Nasir.
Delivering judgment on Wednesday at High Court 9 in Katsina, Justice Ibrahim Mashi found Shamsu Lawal, a former security guard, and Tasi’u Rabi’u, a cook, guilty of conspiring to poison Nasir after repeated failed attempts to rob him. The court held that their actions directly led to the commissioner’s death.
An autopsy jointly conducted by the police and medical professionals confirmed the presence of poison in Nasir’s system.
In addition to the death sentences, a third defendant, Sani Sa’adu, also a former guard to the late commissioner, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for withholding vital information related to the crime.
However, the court acquitted a fourth defendant, Gift Bako, citing insufficient evidence linking her to the murder.
Counsel to the convicted men, Ahmad Murtala Kankia, appealed to the court for leniency, noting that both men had families and dependents.
The late Rabe Nasir served in the cabinet of former Governor Aminu Masari and was previously a member of the House of Representatives for Mani and Bindawa Federal Constituency in 2003. His murder sparked widespread outrage across the state at the time.
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