Wasila Tasi’u Teenage ‘husband killer’ has been discharged and acquitted
The suit against Wasila was reluctantly withdrawn by prosecutors in May
following pressure from activists and human rights organizations.
Source:Jola Sotubo: pulse.ng, re-posted bu Abudlgafar Esho (www.econsforumnews.blogspot.com)
Wasila Tasi’u, a teenage girl who was accused of killing her 35-year-old husband, Umar Sani, with rat poison, has been discharged and acquitted by a Nigerian court.
The
suit against Wasila was reluctantly withdrawn by prosecutors in May
following pressure from activists and human rights organizations.
An official notice to that effect was sent to Judge Mohammed Yahaya of the Kano High Court sitting in Gezawa, leading him to strike out the case.
“I
have no alternative than to pronounce according to law that the
application of ‘nolle prosequi’ (unwilling to pursue) is hereby
granted,” Yahaya said.
“In consequence, therefore, you, Wasila Tasi’u, are hereby discharged,” he added.
Wasila’s lawyer, Hussaina Aliyu,
had earlier called for the case to be dismissed based on the fact that
the prosecution had failed to establish her intent to kill Sani and
exactly how he died.
The teenage girl ‘confessed’ to killing Sani, along with four others, because she was tired of being married.
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