A 17-year-old wife accused of killing her husband as he tried to have Salma Hassan, a resident of Itas-Gadau, was paraded at the Bauchi She told journalists that when her husband approached her for sex She said: “We were married. We loved each other. “I never knew that sex is a marital obligation. On that fateful night “He later got angry and was trying to force himself on me with slaps “I have already given my statement. I’m in great suffering. I’m in According to a Police statement, a knife was recovered when they arrested Salma for culpable homicide at her home in Itas-Gadau.
“On the 24/04/2020 at about 0900hrs, one Haruna Musa ‘m’ of
sex with her in Bauchi has said she had no idea sex is a marital
obligation, so she thought her husband was trying to defile her.
Police Command on Tuesday, May 19, for stabbing her husband to death 11
days after their wedding.
that night, she thought what he was doing was wrong, so she objected.
However, her husband beat her and tried to force himself on her. She
said she then picked a knife to scare him but mistakenly stabbed him
with it.
when he approached me for sex, I refused him because I have never been
involved in it. I thought he wanted to defile me.
and beating, then I picked up a knife to scare him away but he kept
coming. I didn’t know when I stabbed him with the knife in his chest.
great bitterness. I don’t know what will happen to me now. But I
wouldn’t have done what I did if I knew better.”
Itas-Gadau reported at Itas-Gadau Division, that one Salma Hassan ‘f’
18yrs of the same address stabbed her husband, one Mohammed Mustapha on
the chest. As a result, he sustained serious injury and was rushed to
General hospital Itas–Gadau for treatment where he was certified dead.
The suspect was arrested and has confessed to the crime. Exhibit
recovered from the suspect was one knife,” the statement reads.
Teenager kills her husband for trying to have sex with her; says she had no idea sex is a marital obligation
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