A Yobe State High Court sitting in Damaturu has sentenced a 45-year-old man, Abubakar Musa, popularly referred to as Daddy, to death by hanging for the killing of his wife, Ammi Adamu Mamman, on Wednesday.
The court reportedly convicted Musa of culpable murder after concluding that the prosecution had established his guilt past affordable doubt.
Musa was arrested on January 4, 2024, following the death of his wife at New Bra-Bra Estate in Damaturu, in accordance to experiences.
The then Police Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Police Command, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, mentioned the incident was reported within the early hours of that day.
“The ‘C’ Divisional Police Headquarters, Damaturu, received a distress call at about 4:48 a.m. on January 4,” Abdulkarim mentioned.
He defined that preliminary data indicated that the couple have been on the identical mattress when Mamman was allegedly attacked with a pointy object on the neck.
“The victim sustained severe bleeding, which led to her death,” he mentioned.
Abdulkarim added that Musa was arrested for questioning, whereas detectives connected to the murder unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department launched an investigation into the incident.
Mamman’s death additionally attracted condemnation from her office and civil society organisations in Yobe State.
In a e-newsletter revealed in February 2024, Yobe State University recognized Mamman as a member of its employees and disclosed that the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mala Mohammed Daura, had expressed unhappiness over her death.
The college mentioned Daura known as on safety businesses to make sure that these accountable for the killing have been introduced to justice.
Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, additionally sympathised with Mamman’s household following her death.
He assured the household that anybody discovered culpable can be made to face the regulation.
