A housewife, Fatima Abubakar, has been arrested by the Borno State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, in the Anguwan Doki area of the State.
The 25-year-old reportedly poisoned the late Chief Imam on October 19, when she was arrested.
Disclosing this, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, stated that Umar was poisoned by his second wife, Abubakar, a few moments after he returned from the mosque on that day.
The victim was said to have felt uncomfortable, the moment he started eating the poisoned food.
He explained that as soon as Abbah started eating, he began feeling uncomfortable.
He said the Imam was rushed to the State Specialist Hospital where he was given medical attention, but later died.
According to the police boss, men of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department were deployed to the scene of the incident.
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The commissioner continued that his men salvaged the situation as angry had prepared to lynch the suspect.
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, told NAN 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.”