AISHA ABUBAKAR
A 20-year old Housewife, Mrs. Maryam Ibrahim, has confessed to the Police that she killed her co-wife, Hafsat Ibrahim, 32, with a pestle because she gave her poisoned meat and she retaliated by killing her.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Gar Village in Pali Ward in Alkaleri Local Government Area, Bauchi State, on 22nd November, 2022, where they reside.
Police operatives from the Bauchi State Command have arrested Mrs. Maryam and detained her interrogation over the dastardly conduct.
The embittered Maryam told the Police that she had collected meat from the late co-wife, Mrs. Hasfat and she became sick. She then decided to attack and kill her in retaliation.
This was confirmed by the Bauchi State Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Walil, who said that the suspect’s husband reported the incident to the Police and she was arrested and detained for interrogation.
“On the 22nd November 2022 at about 6.00pm, one Ibrahim Sambo, male (40) of Gar village Pali Ward, Alkaleri LGA, came to Maina-maji Divisional Police Headquarters and reported that on the same date at about 12.00am, his second wife Maryam Ibrahim, (20) of the same address armed with a pestle entered into his first wife’s room, Hafsat Ibrahim (32), of the same address and hit her on the head with the pestle.”
As a result, the victim sustained a serious degree of injury and was evacuated to a Primary Healthcare Centre in Gar village, where she was certified dead by the medical doctor.
Upon receiving the report, a team of detectives attached to the Command swung into action and arrested the suspect.
During interrogation, the suspect voluntarily confessed to the crime. She revealed that on Tuesday, 22nd November, 2022, at about 11.00am, the deceased (Hafsat Ibrahim), sent her son, Abdulaziz Ibrahim (5) with a lump of fried meat known as (Tsire) to give her (Maryam). After eating the meat, she started feeling abnormal and she then vomited the meat.
Thereafter, she (the suspect) called one Faiza Hamisu, female, of the same address, the wife of her husband’s younger brother, and told her exactly what happened.
She added that the said Faiza told her that it was probably an ulcer and she (Faiza), then gave her an ulcer drug.
The Police spokesman, Wakil, stated that the suspect provocatively went to her kitchen, picked a pestle, entered the first wife’s room while she was asleep and hit her on the head, leading to her death.
He said she will be arraigned in Court as soon as investigations are concluded.