From PAUL ORUDE, BAUCHI
A housewife in Bauchi State has vented her frustration of being forced to marry her husband against her wish by poisoning her two-week-old stepson with toxic insecticide.
Hindatu Abdullahi, who was paraded along with other suspected criminals at the Bauchi State Police Command Headquarters, on Wednesday, wept profusely as he confessed to killing the infant.
The mother claimed that she was trapped and unhappy in her two years old marriage.
Confessing amidst tears, the 19-year-old Hindatu said: “I was forced to marry my husband as a second wife at age of 17.
“I never love him and since we got married, my husband and his first wife have been maltreating me so I decided to poison the boy out of frustration.
“I was taken to the vigilante group who flogged me 80 lashes of horse whip before I was brought to police station.
“I am regretting my action. I never knew what came over me. I’m begging for forgiveness from my husband, eldest wife and security operatives”
Parading the suspect, the Police Public Relations Office of the state command, DSP Kamal Datti Abubakar said: “On 19/08/2017, a case was reported at Maina Maji division that in the house of one Abdullahi Ori Male of Wurs Bogga village, Duguri district of Alkaleri LG, who went for this year’s hajj pilgrimage at Saudi Arabia leaving his two wives at home, Fatima Abdullahi and Hindatu Abdulahi the younger wife.
“The said Hindatu Abdullahi collected the child of her co-wife, Fatima Abdullahi named Mohammed Abdullahi, a two weeks old baby and went into her room with the baby and put into his mouth an insecticide popularly known as Ota pia-pia as a result the baby became unconscious and was rushed to nearby dispensary and later the baby died.
“The suspect was arrested and also the remaining quality of the toxic insecticide was also recovered now on the process of scientific examination, the suspect confessed to the offense of which she will charge to court after investigation, he said”
The police spokesman said that the suspect would soon be charged to court for culpable homicide.