Crimes

Woman kills husband with poison in Borno

The Borno State Police Command has paraded a 25-year-old woman, Fatima Abubakar, for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, with poison.

The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar, who spoke to newsmen while parading Abubakar at the command headquarters in Maiduguri on Sunday, said the suspect was arrested on October 19 at Anguwan Doki.

Umar said the victim, who was the Chief Imam of the area, returned from the mosque when the suspect, who was the second wife, allegedly mixed poison in his food.

He further revealed that Goni’s condition deteriorated after he ate the food.

“The victim was immediately rushed to the State Specialist Hospital where he was given emergency medical attention, but unfortunately he later died when they returned home,” he added.

Umar stated that he immediately deployed officers of the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department to arrest the suspect after the incident was reported by the family of the victim at the GRA Police Station.

He noted that on the arrival of the police, they witnessed large numbers of aggrieved youths in the neighbourhood who stormed the home of the victim with the intention to lynch the suspect, adding that the police were however able to bring the situation under control.

The police commissioner said the suspect, in her statement, confessed to the alleged crime, saying she bought the poison from Monday Market when she already made up her mind to kill him.

Umar added that the case has been registered as culpable homicide before the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions before she would be charged to court.

Speaking with newsmen, Abubakarsaid she killed her husband because she was tired of the marriage.

She said: “I never wanted the marriage. Goni was my second husband; I got separated from my first husband because I hate marriage.

“Anytime I wake up with the fact that I am married, it pisses me off. At some point, I had to run to my parent to demand an end to the marriage but they always sent me back, asking me to be patient.

“At some point, two months after I gave birth to my child, I ran away and slept in an uncompleted building for about two weeks. I later returned to my husband’s house.

“Not that he doesn’t treat me well, we are also not quarrelling. We are two in the household, I am his second wife and I have been married to him since 2021. But I just hate when any man comes near me.

“I don’t really know what is wrong with me. Even now that I am speaking to you, I don’t really feel that I was the one who killed him,” she said.

The Star