Court Sentence A Police Man To Death For Killing His 12 Year Old Wife.

  The long awaited judgement have been served on a police officer who strangled his 12 year old wife to daeth for ritual purpose.

Death sentence was served on him on state High Court ,same was also upheld at the Appeal court ,before finally at the Supreme court, Sokoto state.

The apex court, after analysing the parties’ written  arguments, said  that   Maigari acted callously.

“To say the least, the appellant displayed a complete disregard for human life, with the archetypal characteristics of a beast dressed in police uniform with which he set about the abuse of that office and had thought he had enough expertise to cover up the dastardly acts with the impunity that went along with persons of such genre, best kept away from human society, especially as he held nothing sacred.”

 The police officer who got married to his second wife Sa’adatu Torankawa (whose age was put between 11 and 13 years) ,has denied killing his wife for ritual purpose, whom he has to dump the remains of his in a gutter at Janzomo village, along Kajiji-Shagari Road.

 He how ever stated that the late wife was sick ,that on his way conveying her to the hospital in the night ,he discovered that she was already dead ,that he had to look for a sack bag and put her remains and dump it inside gutter along the road.

He also told the court that he hid the news about Sa’adatu’s “ailment” and subsequent death from everyone, including his second wife, Hauwa’u and his deceased wife’s relatives, because he was scared his in-laws could kill him.

At the conclusion of trial, the trial judge, Justice Abbas Bello, found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging.

He latter took the matter to Court of Appeal ,Sokoto and also lost ,which also compelled him to also challenge the matter at the supreme court, Sokoto, where the judgement of the lower court were also upheld.

 

The apex court wondered why his decision to dump his wife’s body at the car park of the hospital and later, under a culvert, where it was later discovered by passers-by rather than take her to the doctor for medical attention.

The court further wondered how Maigari, not being a medical doctor, concluded that his wife was dead;  and why he chose to dump her corpse under a culvert along the road to rot away, rather than inform her relatives for her to be properly buried.

The apex court upheld the evidence in a medical report tendered by the prosecution to the effect that the deceased died from strangulation.

“What is sure is that there is enough circumstantial evidence, cogent, compelling, unequivocal and irresistible, leading to the conclusion that the appellant and no other, caused the death of his wife, a young person of between 12-13 years, by strangulating her to death and dumping her corpse in a culvert.

“It is also to be said that the proof put forward by the prosecution was beyond reasonable doubt in tragic circumstances, most especially, in the present situation, where the perpetrator of this heinous, animalistic crime is an officer of the Nigerian Police Force, who donned the uniform of state, not with pride and dignity of a law enforcement personnel, but wore the uniform which he was unworthy to be seen in.

“The circumstances are such that I see no redeeming feature available to the appellant and therefore no basis to either fault what the trial court and Court of Appeal did. Rather, this court has no choice but to affirm the concurrent findings of the two courts below, which were supported by the evidence on record and nothing on which a deviation can be hung,” Justice Peter-Odili held.

The adjudicating judged said.

Also sentence the accused person to death by hanging.