Kano
state police command has confirmed arrest of a teenage bride, Sadiya Umar who
allegedly poisoned her husband Umar Sani to death two weeks after their
wedding.
Daily
Trust gathered that the incident happened at Yakasai Quarters of Kano
metropolis on Thursday last week.
Late
Umar Sani was suspected to have been killed by rat poison served in his meal by
his wife Sadiya on Thursday last week but died a day after at the Aminu Kano
Teaching Hospital.
Public
Relations Officer, Kano state police Command, DSP Magaji Musa Majiya disclosed
in a telephone interview with our reporter that the woman was arrested on
Monday, two days after she evaded arrested.
Majiya
said ‘’three relations of the late husband reported the incident to Kofar
Wambai Police station in Kano metropolis on Monday’’ stressing that ‘’after the
Police received the report on the incident, they went to the deceased
matrimonial home at Yakasai quarters to effect arrest, but found that the bride
had run away until yesterday when she was eventually arrested’’ he said.
The
PPRO said the woman had already been handed to the Criminal Investigation
Department (CID) for interrogation.
He
further confirmed the burial of the remains of the late Husband.
- Daily Trust
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