Policemen in Niger state have arrested a 20-year-old housewife who reportedly poisoned her 8-month-old stepdaughter to teach the mother a lesson.
20-year-old woman, Zulac Kabiru
A 20-year-old woman, Zulac Kabiru, has confessed to killing her eight-month-old stepdaughter, Rukaiya Kabiru, to teach her co-wife how to respect ‘her superior’ by giving her local insecticide, known as ‘otapiapia’, to drink.
Zulac who was arrested by the police in Niger State for allegedly killing her stepdaughter at Danauta village in the Mariga Local Government Area of the state, said the second wife had the habit of insulting and assaulting her, so she decided to poison her daughter.
The suspect was said to have secretly given the baby the locally-made insecticide to drink, which resulted in her death. It was gathered that the suspect and her co-wife had not been on good terms for a long time. Facts gathered also revealed that the first wife resented the marriage to the second wife.
Speaking to newsmen when she was paraded, she said: “I warned my husband to desist from getting another wife in the family but he would not listen. The second wife was in the habit of insulting and assaulting me at all times and one day I decided to poison her eight-month-old daughter to death to increase her sorrow.”so that she will learn how to respect her superior in the family.
"Before my husband married her, we have been living in peace but when she came she divided the family. My husband gave her more attention than myself and since then our family had been in shambles.”