Officers of the Niger State Police Command have arrested a 36-year-old-woman for allegedly stabbing her mother-in-law to death in the Mashegu Local Government Area (LGA) of the state following a misunderstanding.

The suspect, Fatima Sani, of Gobirawa village, was trying to escape when she was apprehended by policemen attached to the Mashegu Division.

Our correspondent gathered that the suspect and her husband, identified as Sani Umaru, had a misunderstanding on April 23rd, 2020, which resulted to a divorce.

Flavision learnt that the suspect alleged that her mother-in-law, Aishatu Umaru, aged 70, of Tozon Daji village in Mashegu, advised her son to divorce her.

It was gathered that both women had irreconcilable differences with each other, ever since Fatima got married to Sani and that prompted her to trace her mother-in-law to her village and stab her to death.

The suspect told our correspondent in Minna that her mother-in-law never liked her and that she instigated her son to divorce her.

Fatima stated,

Since I came into that family, I have not known anything called peace; every day is punctuated with my mother-in-law’s trouble. There is nothing I did that pleased her and I decided to stab her to death so that everything would be over.

I know I have done something that even Allah will not forgive me, but let the law take its cause. Since she did not want me to have peace in my matrimonial home, Allah will not set her free.

The Niger State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Wasiu Abiodun, on Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 confirmed the incident, adding that the case was being investigated by the police and that the suspect would be charged to court soon.

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