By Ujah Simon, kaduna.
A house wife identified as Hauwa Ibrahm has reportedly killed two of her own children because her husband, one Ibrahim Haruna Aminu, married another wife.
The deceased kids were identified as Yusuf (5-year-old) and the Zahra’u (3-year-old).
Eyewitness neighborhood who revealed the information said the incident occurred on Saturday morning in Diso village in Gwale Local Government area of Kano State. Speaking to journalists an Uncle of deceased children, Sadiq Haruna Aminu said Hauwau, his brother’s wife and mother of the deceased children, have been living with envy and jealousy ever since his brother married another wife, leading to her killing her own children.
Sadiq told further stated that his brother got married to the new wife two months ago.
He said the incident happened when her husband was away to his new wife’s place, when his eldest wife, Hauwau called him on phone in the morning, informing him that all is not well in their house only for him to returned back to the house and meet the lifeless bodies of the children in the pool of blood. Hauwau carried out the atrocities and ran away from the house.
“She beat the children and used knife to cut them. Her sister’s daughter (10-year-old) who was living with them was also another victim but survived with knife cut on her hand and she is the witness when the incident happened.
“We don’t know her where about at the moment because we spoke with the security operatives. We learnt she went to her parent’s house,” Sadiq said. The ward head of Diso, Ahmad Bello said they were all thrown into a state of shock with the incident. Bello however condemned the act carried out by the woman saying she should have taken the matter to court instead of taking the laws into her hand and killing the innocent children. When contacted the police public relations officer, PPRO, Kano State command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna KIYAWA confirmed the incident.
He said the suspect was in their custody and investigation had already commenced.
