A
Nigerian soldier, Sunday Umaru, has been dragged before a Barkin-Ladi High
Court in Plateau, for allegedly killing his lover, Charity Thomas, over a phone
call.
Mr. Umaru, a married
man, was a private in the Nigerian Army and on posting at the Special Task
Force (STF), sector 7, Barkin-Ladi, at the time of the incident, on January 23,
2016.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hearing, scheduled for March 30, could not hold
due to the absence of Justice Samson Gang.
Mr. Umaru was first
arraigned on July 14, 2016 on a one-count charge of culpable homicide.
He was accused of
killing his lover Ms. Thomas by stabbing her with a knife in the stomach and
slaughtering her thereafter. Mr. Umaru attacked the woman who had arrived from
Kaduna to visit him.
According to the
prosecutor, W.T Awe, of the Plateau State Ministry of Justice, the accused
person committed the crime on January 23, 2016 in Barkin-Ladi.
Mr. Awe, during the
arraignment, told the court that the Nigeria Army had court-martialed the
accused, dismissed him after they found him guilty, and handed him over to the
police for prosecution.
He said the accused
person had told the police, in a confessional statement, that the deceased
visited him sometime in January 2016, after which they had a misunderstanding
which led to her death.
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