A
packed Kano State High Court, yesterday, heard testimony that a 14-year-old girl
admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a
police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write.
The
girl, from a poor and conservative Muslim family, has been charged with
murdering her husband, Umar Sani, days after their marriage in Kano State.
Because
she does not understand English, homicide investigator Abdullahi Adamu
translated her statement from the Hausa language.
She
could not write her name, so “she had to use a thumbprint,” he told the court,
during his testimony on the last day of the prosecution’s case.
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