Housewife in Birnin Kebbi to die for killing former husband

A precocious Court successful Birnin Kebbi, yesterday, sentenced a woman, Farida Abubakar, to decease by hanging for sidesplitting her erstwhile husband, Chief Magistrate Attahiru Muhammad-Ibrahim.

Abubakar was arraigned earlier the tribunal for execution connected August 25, 2022, while the main complaint was filed connected July 26, 2023. The prosecution said the convict stabbed Muhammad-Ibrahim with a crisp entity connected his abdomen, neck, and near arm, causing his death.

Delivering judgment, the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Umar Abubakar, held that the tribunal was convinced that the accused idiosyncratic committed the offence based connected grounds adduced by the prosecution.

“The suspect was past seen with the deceased successful his location successful Birnin Kebbi. Shortly after, helium was recovered dead. Circumstantial grounds linked the suspect to the offence. The load of impervious is connected the prosecution to found guilt against the accused idiosyncratic beyond tenable uncertainty wrong the bound of grounds adduced.

“With the other judicial connection of the accused idiosyncratic and the grounds of 12 prosecution witnesses, the tribunal is overwhelmingly convinced that the circumstantial grounds is an irresistible information that she was the 1 who killed the deceased. The grounds adduced is cogent, compelling, and not controverted,” the tribunal held.

The justice added: “Her hijab was recovered smeared with blood. It was her volition to termination him. She knew decease would be the consequences of her action. The offence was committed astatine a clip the deceased was astir to wed a caller wife.
 
“The tribunal is satisfied. It is intelligibly established that the suspect mercilessly planned and marshalled the onslaught with a crisp object, evidently to origin death. The tribunal has recovered you blameworthy of culpable homicide and bodily harm. The tribunal has convicted you arsenic charged.

“The tribunal has sentenced you to decease by hanging successful accordance with Section 191(b), Penal Code instrumentality of Kebbi State. You are to beryllium hanged by the cervix until you are dead. The tribunal has besides sentenced you to 7 years successful situation for causing bodily harm successful accordance with Section 224 (1), Penal codification instrumentality of Kebbi State.”  

In his allocutus, the defence counsel, Mudashiru Sani, holding little for Abdulnasir Sallau, described the convict arsenic a archetypal clip offender with aged parents. The counsel said the convict was her parents’ caregiver and besides has a young girl successful request of motherly care.
 
He pleaded with the tribunal to springiness the convict a lighter sentence, truthful that she could decorativeness her word and travel backmost to the nine arsenic a reformed individual, considering her age.

Responding, the prosecuting counsel, who is the Director, Public Prosecution (DPP) successful the state’s Ministry of Justice, Lawal Hudu-Garba, enjoined the tribunal to travel the missive of the instrumentality to service arsenic deterrent to others. Shortly aft the judgment, the defence counsel, Sani, said his lawsuit would entreaty the verdict.