Police arrest 26-year-old husband for killing wife in Jigawa

A 26-year-old husband has been arrested for killing his wife in Jigawa by the Poice Command in the Sule Tankarkar local government area.

While confirming the case in a statement in Dutse on Wednesday, the police spokesman Lawan Shiisu said the suspect was arrested after the police received a report about the killing on December 27, at about 12:50 p.m.

He further explained that the complainant alleged that the suspect hit the deceased with a stick during a disagreement.

“On December 27, at about 1250hrs, one Bulama Muntari Ubale of Baldi village Sule Tankarkar LGA reported that on the same date at about 1130hrs, a couple, one Yusuf Zubairu, aged 26, of Fulanin Mailefe in Baldi village and one Fatima Hardo Dare, aged 23, of the same address, were having misunderstanding between them,” said the police statement. “And in the process of the fracas, the said Yusuf Zubairu, a.k.a Sallau, used a stick and hit Fatima Hardo (now deceased) on her head.”

It added that an individual, Rabi Lawan, of the same address “came to intervene, the said Yusuf Zubairu, also inflicted serious injury on her.”

The statement added that upon receipt of the report, a team of policemen rushed to the scene and conveyed the victims to Gumel General Hospital, where Ms Dare was confirmed dead by a medical doctor. At the same time, Ms Lawan was admitted for treatment.

According to the police, the stick was recovered as an exhibit, and that investigation into the case is ongoing, after which the suspect would be charged to court.

In other news, the Coalition of the Northern Groups, CNG, has lamented the alarming rate of killings, kidnapping, and general insecurity across the country.

CNG’s Director of Strategic Communications, Ismail Musa said President Muhammadu Buhari should return Nigeria back to the era of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan when the country experienced a minimal level of insecurity.

Musa made the call while featuring on a launch time discourse on Vanguard live on Wednesday. He berated the President over his handling of insecurity in the country.

According to Musa: “What we are begging them for now is, you know human life is very important in fact it’s very key.

“If you can do something, in fact, if you can take us back to the insecurity you met on board that will be tolerable to a large extent to say well he has taken us back to Jonathan’s standard we are crying about, I mean the killings at that time the statistics

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