Police Arrest Man, 56, For Beating Wife To Death

AISHA ABUBAKAR 

Police operatives from the Adamawa State Command have arrested a 56-year old man, Aminu Abubakar, for allegedly beating his wife to death. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspect, Abubakar, allegedly dealt fatal blows on his wife, Nana Fadimatu, after he heard that she had concluded plans to leave him and get married to a man in a neighbouring community.

Operatives of Adamawa Police Command, who arrested the man, a resident of Lelewaji community in Shagari Phase 2 Estate, Yola South Local Government Area, have charged him for descending on the wife after he heard that the wife was going to get married to another man the next day.

According to a statement from the Police headquarters in Yola, the 56-year-old Abubakar was arrested for beating Fadimatu, 38, “over information she is going to get married to another man”.

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said that the suspect “furiously engaged” the deceased about 10pm on Friday, 5th May, 2023.

He said that the suspect, Abubakar, applied force on Nana Fadimatu by hitting her with a hard object, as a result of which she fell unconscious and was later pronounced dead.h

SP Nguroje confirmed that the suspect was arrested by Police operatives from the Shagari Divisional Headquarters after a report received from Fadimatu’s intended new husband, Mahmud Rufai of Shagari Annex, Yola South.