One Mallam Jamilu in Sokoto north local government area has been arrested for allegedly beating his 8-month-old pregnant wife, Suwaiba to the state of coma.
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Jamilu was said to have beaten the mother of his two children, who is now carrying their third child with a hammer, inflicting a serious body injury on her. The suspect confessed committing the offence which he attributed to the work of a devil, and pleaded for mercy and forgiveness.
The commander, Sokoto state Hisbah Commissioner, Dr Adamu Kasarawa said the suspect was arrested following a report from a Good Samaritan. He explained that the incident followed a mild misunderstanding between the couple.
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Kasarawa said by the time his men visited their place, the wife was already unconscious with blood gushing out from her mouth, saying: “We rushed her to the hospital where she had been in coma for almost six days before she was revived.”
He described Jamilu’s action as inhuman act which is against the Shari’ah law, assuring that he would be prosecuted after their investigation, as it not the first time he would be beating her.