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:
“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 Sunthat “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.
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