Assailants kill mother, 4-year-old daughter in Kebbi
People of Labarana Rice Mills area in Birnin Kebbi on Monday woke up to the sad news of a gruesome murder of a house wife, Sadiyya Idris, 25 years and her 4 year old daughter.
According to Mallam Idris, the father of late Sadiyya, while narrating what happened to the Deputy Governor of Kebbi State, Colonel Samaila Yombe (rtd) and Wazirin Gwandu Abdullahi Umar who paid a condolence visit to the house of the deceased said he was informed around 5am that some assailants broke into his daughter’s matrimonial home and matcheted her and her 4 years old daughter.
He said, “when I and my relatives came we saw our daughter and our granddaughter in a pool of blood, lifeless, nothing was missing and there was no traces of the murderers, we want justice for our gruesomely murdered daughter, he told government officials who visited on behalf of Kebbi governor.
In his response, the deputy governor, Samaila Yombe sympathised with the grieving family and assured them something concrete will be done and prayed to God to give them fortitude to bear the loss.
However, the elder sister to late Sadiyya, Hajia Sahura Muktar said that Sadiyya’s husband who is a tailor left his house around 1am for his shop and his wife was killed around 4am with a matched.
She added that the lactating mother also left behind a 3 months old baby.
She described late Sadiyya as a quiet and enduring woman who hardly reported her marital issues to her relatives.
Meanwhile, Hakilu Muhammad, the husband has been hospitalized at sir Yahya memorial hospital as he collapsed immediately he got the news of his wife and daughter’s murder.
Calls made to the police image maker SP Nafiu Abubakar, were not answered but the farther of deceased who confirmed the murder said he and the police evacuated the bodies to the hospital before they were released for burial. (Daily Independent)
