THE Niger State Police Command has arrested a 14-year-old
wife from Lifari Village in the Mashegu Local Government Area of the state for
allegedly killing her 40-year-old husband.
It was learnt that the suspect,
Aisha Isah, and the late Usman, to whom she got married five months ago, were
cousins.
Northern City News gathered that Isah had been complaining
of starvation and maltreatment since she started living with Usman, who already
had two wives.
One of the two wives was said to have left on account of the
failure of Usman to meet up with his responsibilities to his family.
The teenage wife told our correspondent on Tuesday that her
late husband failed to provide for her for two days.
“And when I confronted him, he slapped me and out of anger,
I hit him on the forehead with a pestle and he collapsed and died,” she
explained.
Isah added, “My husband had the habit of not giving us money
for food and each time we (the wives) confront him, he would tell us to go to
our parents’ home and eat. He never cared about us; he beat us every time we
demanded money for food.”
Asked if the other wife was at home at the time of the
incident, she stated that the other wife went to the hospital with her baby.
“My mate was not around; it was only me and my late husband
that were in the house at the time of the incident. I picked a pestle and hit
him, he fell on the ground and I ran to my mother’s house at Kahigu Village in
Mashegu council,” Isah said.
Isah said she inadvertently killed her husband out of anger
and pleaded for forgiveness.
“I am sorry for what happened, it is the devil’s work and I
pray my parents will forgive me; I never knew that he would die, I regretted
all my actions,” she stated.
The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, explained that the victim
died at Mashegu Hospital where he was taken for treatment.
Elkana described the incident as unfortunate, but added that
the suspect would nevertheless be prosecuted as a juvenile offender.
Broke-ass men have no business daring into polygamy.
Even the Holy Koran is against that incompetency, abi na inadequacy...
And I'm sure he was also starving hence a single blow with a short
By they way, where are those NGOs that always show up for child brides?
Come rally round this kid, she needs help.
Come rally round this kid, she needs help.
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