A 24-year-old House wife, Hafsat Sirajo, is in police custody for allegedly stabbing her driver Nafiu Hafizu to death in Kano.
Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Usaini Gumel, paraded the suspect and her two accomplices before newsmen on Friday.
Gumel said Hafsat, a resident of Unguwa Uku quarters in Tarauni Local Government Area confessed to singlehandedly committing the act by stabbing the deceased several times with a knife.
The police commissioner said her husband, Dayyabu AAbdullahi, 38, and their guard (Maigadi) Malam Adam 65, were also arrested for aiding and concealing the dead body to cover up the offence of culpable homicide.
He said the police received report from one Hafizu Salisu Of Bauchi Local government, Bauchi State that he received a phone call from one Dayyabu Abdullahi that his brother one Nafiu Hafizu is dead and that they should come and convey the corpse to Bauchi for burial, but when they came they discovered several injuries on different part of his body.
“The motionless body was removed from the scene and rushed to Aminu Kano teaching Hospital where a medical doctor certified him dead”, the CP said.
Her face covered with veil, Hafsat told reporters that the driver who stayed with the couple tried to stop her from killing herself and confiscated a knife from her hand.
“I had a small cut on my hand and he asked me to go and change my clothes. Coming out from the bathroom I saw him laying down and I grabbed the knife and stabbed him severally,” she said.
Husband of the suspect Dayyabu Abdullahi said he personally called relatives of the deceased in Bauchi to break the news.
“I called his parents in Bauchi to tell them that Nasiru has died. And Baba here suggested that we should wash the dead body”. Dayyabu said
In the meantime, the father of the deceased, Malam Hafizu Gorondo, is suspicious that the couple might have conspired to kill his son because of some outstanding monies Dayyabu owed his son.
He said his son had told him of the failure of Dayyabu who was also his business partner to repay him an outstanding loan of a N25m
Police said after discreet investigations the suspects would be prosecuted.
