Nigerian Wife Kills Husband With Pestle During Fight

Nigerian Wife Kills Husband With Pestle During Fight

Fatima Dzuma has been apprehended for killing her 25-year-old husband, Baba Aliyu, in Lafiyagi Dzwafu village in the Katcha local government area of Niger State.

According to reports, Dzuma was said to have married Baba three years ago as his second wife……after divorcing her first husband, but she had not given birth to Baba, while Baba’s first wife had just given birth, and preparations were underway for the naming ceremony.

Reports further revealed that the deceased and the suspect usually had misunderstandings, and even the night before Dzuma killed Baba, they had a fight in which Baba beat Dzuma.

,,,,,,The 27-year-old Dzuma narrated that there had been an altercation between them that night, and she was beaten by her husband, who left the house after the assault.

According to her; “When he came back, he went to bed. I used a rope to tie his neck, and he could not struggle. I hit him with a pestle three times, twice on his head and once on his hand. I took advantage of his sleeping because his sleep is always deep.

,,,,,“After I killed him, I put him inside a mat, threw him over the fence and dragged him to the bush in the backyard before coming back to wash the blood and excreta that came out of his body when I killed him”, she said.

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When asked why she killed him, she said they had a misunderstanding where she told him that she did not love him anymore, and he beat her up.

……When the family of Baba was looking for him, she claimed she had not seen him but confessed to the crime three days after she killed him.

According to her, only she carried out the act without the help of anybody.

The Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abiodun Wasiu, said that the body of Baba Aliyu was found in a bush close to the house, adding that the suspect is currently in police custody.

_____“She confessed that she used a pestle to hit her husband when he was asleep and she later tied the deceased with clothes and rope and rolled the corpse to a nearby bush with a mat.

____“The corpse was taken to general hospital Bida for post-mortem while the suspect was taken to custody. She will soon be transferred to SCID Minna for further investigation and prosecution”, Abiodun said.(The Nation)