Thursday, 10 April 2014

Child Marriage: 14 Year Old Girl Poisons 35 Year Old Husband, 14 Others

On 6:51:00 am by Unknown   2 comments


A fourteen-year-old bride, Wasila Umaru, has allegedly poisoned her 35-year- old husband, Umaru Sani and three others in Ungwar Yansoro, Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State.
Wasila was said to have bought a rat poison known in local parlance as Shinkafa Bera at a village market for N80.
The Police statement reads:
“The suspects conspired and adulterated the Zobo juice (locally made drink) with poisonous substances (Zakami) which was served to guests. “The husband took his meal and drink with his 14 friends.”
“After drinking the juice, two people-Nasiru Mohammed and Alhassan Alhassan of Yansoro Kademi- died on the spot. The third victim, a woman, Indo Ibrahim, died in the hospital. Other was treated and discharged.”
“The command swung into action and arrested the first two suspects who fled to Bauchi while the third one was arrested at Unguwa Uku in Kano metropolis.”
“The suspects have already been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation,” it said.

The suspect reportedly confessed to the crime, claiming that she did it because she was forced to marry a man she didn’t love.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10 April 2014 at 16:41

    I salute her courage, despite the severity of her crime, it was a form of self defense, probably the only form available for her. Years ago a child bride in northern Nigeria had both her legs chopped off with an axe by her husband with her fathers consent. Her crime was that she ran away from her husband for the third and last time.

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  2. Anonymous11 April 2014 at 05:01

    yah! that serves them right...! wow @Femi O. dat's inhuman and injustices

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