A four-day-old baby boy has been gruesomely
murdered by his own mother who fed him with a
N40 rat poison.
Binta Shuaibu, 20, conspired with her friend,
Hindatu Umar, 27, to commit the dastardly act in
Dan Amarya village, Danja Local Government
Area of Katsina State.
The mother and her co-conspirator are now
answering to the wicked act in police custody.
What could make a mother willfully kill her own
baby?
The suspect, Binta tells her story to Sunday Sun:
"I was born in Layin-Ruwa, Kafur Local
Government Area Katsina State. I got married
11years ago and my husband, Inusa later forced
me to divorce him. I have only one son, Aminu
for him.
After the divorce, I decided to go into
prostitution. The money I got from
prostitution is what I use to feed my father
in the village. My father had divorced my
mother because my mother begged him to
allow me to return to my former husband,
but my father rejected the advice. My father
divorced my mother because of that.
While engaged in prostitution, I suddenly
had an unwanted pregnancy, which I did
not terminate. I was able to conceal the
pregnancy and successfully had the baby
boy delivered in my room.
The ward head, Maiunguwa in the village
where I was doing prostitution had warned
all prostitutes not to have unwanted
pregnancy, and that anyone who got
pregnant must relocate to any nearby
village to deliver and care for the baby
there.
But because of the warning by village head,
I was at a loss to what to do with the baby
and my calling as a prostitute.
My good friend, Hindatu Umar suggested
that since we do not want to stop
prostitution, we should kill the baby. We
both went into the street and bought rat
poison for N40 and used it to kill the baby.
Asked how the baby was actually killed, Binta
said:
It was about midnight that the act was
carried out. I told my friend, Hindatu that I
would not want to witness the killing of my
own child.
Hindatu was the one who fed my baby with
the poison. She forced him to drink the
poison. When she wanted to do it, I went
into the other room and took a drug, Valium
5 and slept off. I woke up to see that my
baby was dead. We wrapped the dead body
with clothes.
News of the heinous crime soon filtered out and
the partners in crime were apprehended.
Binta spoke further:
"Unknown to us, the ward head had heard
about the news that my baby was killed. He
quickly went to Danja Police Station,
reported the incident and we were arrested
by the police."
In her own confession, Hindatu Umar said:
I am a prostitute. My friend, Binta delivered
a baby boy and we have a law by the ward
head in the village of Danja that he doesn't
want any unwanted pregnancy and that any
of us prostitutes who gets pregnant should
leave the village and deliver the baby in the
next village.
We still enjoy our job as prostitutes and so,
we both decided to kill the baby. I
suggested to her to kill the baby. We went
into the street and bought local rat killer
and by midnight I gave the baby the poison
and he drank the poison and died instantly.
I took the container and dropped it in the
toilet. Later the news spread and policemen
from Danja Police Station arrested us."
Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Mr.
Mohammed Hurdi told Sunday Sun that "it was
when the news spread the following morning that
the ward head reported the incident to Danja
Police Station and this led to the arrest of the
two suspects, Binta Shuaibu and Hindatu Umar
who are currently at the State CID under
investigation."
CP Hurdi added that the baby had been buried,
while the mother of the baby, Binta and her
partner, both of whom conspired to commit the
murder, would face the wrath of the law.
The commissioner said after investigation had
been concluded, the suspects would be charged
to court.
No comments:
Post a Comment