Barely one week after a woman severed her stepson’s
penis, another woman has been arrested for trying to kill a two-hour old baby
boy in Kopa village in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. The
25-year-old suspect, Bilkisu Adamu Isah, said to be the second wife to the
father of the little baby, was alleged to have committed the offence on
Wednesday at about 7am.
We learnt that at about 5am on the
fateful morning the mother of the child, Suwebatu Kohageuto, who is also the
senior wife, had been delivered of the baby boy. And barely two hours after the
birth of the child, the suspect, Bilkisu Adamu Isah, was allegedly left alone
to look after the new born baby in order to allow Suwebatu have her bath few
hours after the umbilical cord of the baby had been separated from him.
An insider police source at the homicide section of the
Niger State Criminals Investigation, Intelligent Department (SCIID) Minna said
that no sooner that the suspect observed that the senior wife had started to
bath that she went into her own room in the house, brought out a bottle of a
locally made insecticide popularly called ‘Otapiapia’ and poured some into the
mouth of the little child.
The source, who pleaded anonymity, said as soon as the
suspect had poured the substance into the mouth of the boy that he began to
foam and cried out hysterically, obviously in pain.
Surprisingly, the same suspect, who allegedly committed
the act, was also said to have been the one that raised the alarm which
attracted other members of the family, including the mother of the child. It
was learnt that the family members were shocked at the strange occurrence and
promptly made a distress call to the grandfather of the child, one Alhaji
Mohammed Audu to come. And on arriving at the scene, the old man was said to
have put his nose near the mouth of the boy and subsequently told the bewildered
family members that he suspected that the boy might have been poisoned with
‘Otapiapia’ because that was the odour he perceived.
We further learnt that in the midst of
the confusion that engulfed the family as the boy was taken to the hospital,
the suspect was said to have quietly escaped from the scene and ran to her
father’s house in a nearby village, Gbedahan, in the same Bosso Local
Government.
And on her arrival at her family house, she had confessed
to her father that she poisoned her 2-hour old stepson with a view to killing
him. However, her disappearance raised suspicion with her husband’s family
because she did not tell anyone before she left. A delegation was sent to the
suspect’s village where she allegedly confessed to her in-laws that she was
responsible for the dastardly act, which she carried out due to her inability
to give birth to a male child for her husband.
The 25-year-old suspect, and a mother of two female
children, was promptly handed to the Niger State Police Command headquarters
and where upon investigation, she confessed to the crime. Meanwhile, the little
boy is said to be responding to treatment at the General Hospital Minna.
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
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