“I POISONED my husband because I was forced to marry him. I did not mean to kill him but only wanted to show him that I have no feelings for him. I thought after eating it, he will divorce me and I will return to my father’s house.”
Those were the bitter confessions from Wasila Umar, a14-year-old bride, who poisoned her 35- year-old husband Umar Sani and three other persons, seven days after their marriage, with a substance suspected to be a rat killer.
The new groom Umar Sani reportedly died two weeks ago at Yansoro Kademi village in Gaya Local Council of Kano State after eating the dinner prepared by his first wife alongside his friends, three of whom also died.
Although the first wife of the late Umar prepared the food, Wasila the second wife finally opened up that she deliberately smeared the food with a rat killer substance before their husband arrived to have the meal.
Confessing how she carried out the heinous act while being paraded at the state Police Headquarters in Bompai, Kano, Wasila said she did it because she was forced to marry her late husband.
“When my father told me that I should marry Umar Sani and I told him I didn’t love the man, he refused. Before our marriage when I protested again, my father beat me up and said I must marry the man.”
Wasila continued: “So after our wedding I started thinking of what to do and the idea of rat poison came to me. I went to the village market and I bought it for N80. I returned home and hid it. And when the food of our husband was served in the sitting room I went there and spread it on the Dan-wake, a local delicacy,” she said.
She, however, regretted her husband and the other victims’ death, saying she only wanted to teach her husband and father a lesson.
“I did not mean to kill my husband, I only wanted to show him that I have no feelings for him. I thought after eating it, he would divorce me and I will return to my father’s house. The poisoned food was not meant for the other 13 victims, they were just victims of circumstances.”
Wasila’s father, Mohammed Tasiu, who was also at the Police headquarters, however, denied the claims of his daughter that she was forced into the arranged marriage. He insisted Wasila brought the late husband home herself as the person she wanted to marry.
“I didn’t collect one kobo from the deceased, she was the one that brought him to us that she wanted to marry him. Before Umar she brought two other persons to us but she later told us that she doesn’t love them and that was why, when she brought Umar Sani, we allowed her to marry him,” Tasiu maintained.
Police Public Relations Officer in Kano ASP Magaji Musa Majiya confirmed that investigations have shown that Wasila killed her husband with rat poison. He said a total of 14 persons ate from the food but only four of them died.
The Police spokesperson hinted that Wasila has since confessed the act and claimed that she did it because she doesn’t love her husband noting that further investigation would be conducted before the suspect is charged to the Juvenile Court.
Wasila got married to late Umar, who was a trader based in Gaya, two weeks ago. Before his marriage to Waslia, late Sani had a wife and two children
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