The Nasarawa State High Court sitting in Lafia has sentenced Mrs Amina Zubairu, 35, who is the wife of the late Gom Mama of Kwarra Chiefdom in Wamba Local Government Area of the state, to death by hanging for killing her husband.

The convict was said to have killed her husband, Alhaji Adamu Zubairu, who until his death in 2014, was a first class traditional ruler in the state.

Justice Aisha Bashir of the Nasarawa State High Court 2, sitting in Lafia, passed the judgment on Tuesday.

She held that the accused was found guilty of culpable homicide, which carries the death penalty.

The judge, who noted that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, subsequently sentenced the convict to death by hanging.

Earlier, the police had said the circumstances leading to the death of the traditional ruler were suspicious.

Police investigations led to a search of the compound of the deceased, where a syringe containing remnants of a poisonous substance, was found.

It was learnt that the police arrested the convict in connection with the death of the monarch on the eve of his marriage to another woman on February 15, 2015.

Amina, who was one of the wives of the deceased, was called in for questioning after she was identified as a prime suspect and she was subsequently charged to court for culpable homicide when a case was established against her.

Reacting to the judgment, the prosecution counsel, Jibrin Aboki, commended the court’s decision and said the judgment would serve as a deterrent to others with such tendencies.

Speaking in a similar vein, the first son of the late monarch, Abdullahi Zubairu, expressed satisfaction with the court’s decision.

However, the counsel for the accused, Shekama Sheltu, expressed dissatisfaction with the judgment and expressed his client’s decision to appeal.

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Nice one... justice must be served..

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Women are worse than the devil but act like saints.
These creatures have shown to be abnormal in every category. This explains further why there is an increase in the homosexual population.

Na wa o

He that kills by the sword, should die by the sword.

This is an injustice.
No evidence that the woman killed her husband.
That the police found a syringe with poisonous substance does not make this particular wife guilty
since the household is one with multiple wives and children.

I smell a conspiracy to get rid of the youngest wife.

every woman is a bomb ready to explode. hit the wrong button and yhu may wakeup in yhur grave

Is she a nurse with access to the poisonous stuff And only one with the time & opportunity to do it?

Any forensic evidence linking her to the act?

Couldn't any of the other wives have done it?

The news report is pathetic. No concrete description of how the prosecution service proved her guilt.

RIP to the monarch.

Eye for Eye

Not surprised, she is a Muslim

The write up says "The judge, who noted that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, subsequently sentenced the convict to death by hanging." ... Which means they had established the fact beyond reasonable doubt, otherwise, I don't see why a female judge will sentence another female like her to death for no just cause.

Stupid Judgement without evidence. Nigeria

Satan66:
Women are worse than the devil but act like saints.
These creatures have shown to be abnormal in every category. This explains further why there is an increase in the homosexual population.

You talk as if you didnot come out of a woman.In every race ,gender, group, religion etc there are always good and bad people.

who still use death as penalty for a crime in this century..... what she needs is proper rehabilitation

Any evidence

I dint read anything that pointed to her that she was the one that used the syringe.

Hmmm! May God have mercy on her soul.

Xisnin:
This is an injustice.
No evidence that the woman killed her husband.
That the police found a syringe with poisonous substance does not make this particular wife guilty
since the household is one with multiple wives and children.

I smell a conspiracy to get rid of the youngest wife.

what do you mean by injustice? a court has proved beyond doubt that she did it.

Chiefdom, Alhaji. I don't hunderstand

Satan66:
Women are worse than the devil but act like saints.
These creatures have shown to be abnormal in every category. This explains further why there is an increase in the homosexual population.

men also kill. Not defending the satanic act though

Yudee8:

what do you mean by injustice? a court has proved beyond doubt that she did it.

Courts do not prove.
The woman will be vindicated on appeal.
It is a shame that our judges now reason like angry mobs.

Inspectorsuga22:
Nice one... justice must be served..

And how do u know justice was truly served & she's not being framed by the real culprits.. Oh "a syringe containing remnants of a poisonous substance was found" and that's all. I am not saying she's innocent of the crime but we really need to overhaul our judicial system & criminal investigation.. I am not a judge but if that lady was sentenced to die based on that trashy story up there then we are in a more bigger mess than we know.. Everybody in this country is mad from top to down. Mad government & mad ppl

Esteban8:
every woman is a bomb ready to explode. hit the wrong button and yhu may wakeup in yhur grave

how come your mom didn't detonate bombs on you?

Xisnin:

Courts do not prove.
The woman will be vindicated on appeal.
It is a shame that our judges now reason like angry mobs.

As in i just dey vex as i read that rubbish up there... Nothing is working here. These old people need to be buried along their archaic systems otherwise the suffering & madness will be passed on from generation to generation

Was the traditional ruler stabbed to death?
Any forensic analysis of what happened before the Ruler died?
It's called justice in the jungle carried out in an organised settings
This nation is too backward to entertain such cases in our law court.
RIP HRH.

montumonami:
men also kill. Not defending the satanic act though

Are you trying to mock me?
How was anything satanic related involved?
Think before you comment!

Xisnin:
This is an injustice.
No evidence that the woman killed her husband.
That the police found a syringe with poisonous substance does not make this particular wife guilty
since the household is one with multiple wives and children.

I smell a conspiracy to get rid of the youngest wife.

thank God someone is reasoning same way as i thought. the case should be appealed. the evidence was not substantive enough.

Muslim