Kano: Woman stabs neighbour’s daughter over fear of polygamy

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

Amiddle-aged woman, simply identified as Fatima, has stabbed a sixyear old girl, Sherifat Usman, in Kano state.

Rahma Radio reported that the incident happened when Ms Fatima, resident of Gadon Kaya in the Kano metropolis, accused Sherifat’s father, who lives in the same area, of advising her husband to take another wife.

According to Rahma Radio, a viral video clip, obtained showed little Sherifat sitting on a commercial tricycle en route to hospital as some Samaritan were asking her to narrate her ordeal.

Speaking, with a knife tucked in her stomach, Sherifat narrated that the woman, popularly known as Fatima Matar Malam, lured the six-year-old girl to escort her to Mariri area in Kumbotso Local Government, where she perpetrated the dastardly act.

The girl said she asked her to escort her to Mariri and bought a knife on the way to the area, adding that on reaching there, she took her to an uncompleted building and stab her with the intention of killing her.

“She did not even have the money to buy the knife. She took the knife on credit and told the seller that she will settle him when she returns.

“She initially asked me to escort her to Mariri. As a neighbor, my mother allowed to follow her. She stayed over and bought the knife but i did not know what she was going to do with it.

“As we reach to an uncompleted building, she just brought out the knife and stab me, leaving the knife in my stomach,” Sherifat narrated.

Our Correspondent gathered that, after stabbing Sherifat,

Fatima hurriedly left the scene believing that the little girl was dead.

But her cry attracted passersby who eventually rushed into the uncompleted building and rescued the little girl who survived the grievous attack.

The spokesman of Kano State Police Command, Abdullahi Kiyawa confirmed the incident to Rahma Radio.

Kiyawa, a Superintendent of Police, said the matter is still under investigation as the command is making efforts to arrest the culprit, who is at large.