Why I killed my husband — 18-year-old wife

TRACKING____A housewife, Salma Hassan, who allegedly stabbed her husband to death, has said she did it because she didn’t know that sex was part of marital obligations.

The 18-year-old, who is being detained, spoke with newsmen at the headquarters of the Bauchi State Police Command.

Salma told newsmen that she killed her husband, Mohammed Mustafa, because she thought he was “just trying to defile me”.

She said: “I didn’t know that sex is a marital obligation.

“On that day, when he approached me for sex, I refused because I have never been involved in it before.

“I thought he wanted to rape me, but he got angry and was trying to force himself on me.

“He started beating me.

“I picked up a knife to scare him away, but he kept coming and I didn’t know when I stabbed him with the knife in his chest.”

Salma further explained she had already given her statement to the Police and did not know what would become her fate.

She said: “I wouldn’t have done it if I knew better about marital obligations.”

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspect was paraded before newsmen in the north-eastern state’s capital.

Philip Maku, Police Commissioner in the state, also showed newsmen the knife Salma allegedly used to commit the crime at her home in Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of the state.

The Police Officer explained that the suspect was arrested on April 24.

Make said: “On April 24, one Haruna Musa, a resident of Itas-Gadau, reported the matter at Itas-Gadau Division.

“He complained that one Salma Hassan stabbed her husband.

“The husband, Mohammed Mustapha, was stabbed on the chest.