Fatima Abubakar, a 25-year-old housewife, was reportedly arrested by the Borno Police Command for allegedly poisoning her husband Goni Abbah to death.
The suspect was detained on October 19 by members of the Command at Anguwan Doki, according to Mr. Abdu Umar, Commissioner of Police, who made this information public to the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
Umar claimed that the second wife of the victim, who was the local area’s chief imam, allegedly poisoned the victim’s food as he was leaving the mosque.
He indicated that Goni’s condition deteriorated as soon as he began eating.
He said that after receiving emergency care at the State Specialist Hospital, the victim was immediately sent there but tragically died after they got home.
When the victim’s family reported the event to the GRA Police Station, the commissioner of police quickly dispatched men from the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department to apprehend the suspect.
He said that when the police arrived, they saw a huge group of angry youngsters in the area storming the victim’s home to lynch the suspect, but the police were able to contain the situation.
He continued by saying that the accused admitted to the alleged crime in her statement and that she had already made up her mind to kill him when she purchased the poison from Monday Market.
Before she would be accused in court, he claimed that the case had been filed as a culpable murder with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Fatima, the suspect who was led before the command, said to NAN that she killed her spouse because she was sick of their union.
