Kano High Court Sentences Housewife to Death by Hanging for Killing Husband

A Kano High Court presided by Justice Ahmed Tijjani Badamasi on Friday sentenced a Kano- based house wife, Rashida Saidu to death by hanging for killing her husband.

It would be recalled that the convict was charged to court following her alleged complicity in the death of her husband, Adamu Ali, who was until his death, a staff of the Federal College of Education, Kano.

The Prosecution Counsel, Mariam Jilbrin had told the court that Saidu engaged her husband in a fight at their residence in Dorayo Quarters about a year ago and pushed him down from a one story building, which eventually led to his death

The prosecution produced four witnesses to the court to prove their charge against the suspect.

However, the suspect through her lawyer, Illiya Dauda, denied the charge and proceeded to produce two witnesses to counter the allegation of culpability in the death of her husband.

The Judge in his judgement however ruled that the prosecutor had proven their case beyond reasonable doubt and that the suspect was pivotal to the death of her 56 year old husband.

He then ruled that the woman should be sentenced to death by hanging

Speaking on the judgement , the family of the late Ali described the death sentence
passed on the ex- wife of their brother as just and fair, saying it had served the course of justice.

According to a relative of the deceased, Ali Usman who reacted to the judgement on behalf of
the family, justice had finally come the way of the deceased barely a year after his death.

He also added that “The judiciary against all odds has enforced the interest of justice.”