A defence lawyer on Monday called for the dismissal of murder charges against a 14-year-old girl accused of killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison in the country’s deeply conservative north.
“We urge your lordship to discharge and acquit the accused,” lawyer Hussaina Aliyu said at the High Court in Gezawa, a small town outside the state capital Kano.
Prosecutors say Wasila Tasi’u, who comes from a poor and deeply conservative Muslim family, poisoned the food served at a party last year after marrying Umar Sani in Kano state, in a case that has thrown a spotlight on child marriage.
Aliyu said the …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
