A 25-year-old housewife, Fatima Abubakar, has allegedly poisoned her husband, Goni Abbah to death in Maiduguri.
The victim, was the Chief Imam of the area, had returned from a mosque when the suspect, who was his second wife, allegedly put poison in his food.
Goni who began to feel uncomfortable after eating was immediately rushed to the State Specialist Hospital where he was given medical attention, but later died.
The Borno state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, revealed this in Maiduguri the state capital on Sunday.
He said men of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department were deployed to arrest the suspect after the incident was reported by the victim’s family at the GRA Police Station.
Mr Umar said the police, on arrival at the scene, saw a large number of aggrieved youths in the neighbourhood, who stormed the home of the victim with the intention of lynching the suspect.
Fatima arrested on October 19 at Anguwan Doki by men of the state police command.
The police commissioner noted that the suspect, in her statement, confessed to the crime, saying she bought the poison from the market after she made up her mind to kill her husband.
He said the case had been registered as culpable homicide before the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions before she would be charged.
The suspect, Abubakar, who was paraded at the command headquarters, said that she killed her husband because she was tired of the marriage.
She said, “I never wanted the marriage. Goni was my second husband; I got separated from my first husband because I hate marriage.
“Anytime I wake up with the fact that I am married, it pisses me off.
” At some point, I had to run to my parents to demand an end to the marriage, but they always sent me back, asking me to be patient.
“At some point, two months after I gave birth to my child, I ran away and slept in an uncompleted building for about two weeks. I later returned to my husband’s house.
“Not that he doesn’t treat me well; we are also not quarrelling.
“We are two in the household, I am his second wife and I have been married to him since 2021. But I just hate when any man comes near me.
“I don’t really know what is wrong with me. Even now that I am speaking to you, I don’t really feel that I was the one who killed him”, she said.
