Wasilat Tasi’u has been on trial for the murder of her husband, Umar Sani who was 35 year old, she had killed him with rat poison. She has been sentenced to death by a court and her family are appealing to a Nigerian court to spare his daughter the death sentence.
“We are appealing to the judge to consider Wasilat’s plea,” her father, Isyaku Tasi’u said
On Wednesday witnesses told the High Court in Gezawa, a town 60 miles outside Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano, that Tasi’u killed her husband two weeks after their wedding in April. Three others allegedly died after eating the poisoned meal.
The prosecution, led by Lamido Soron-Dinki, senior state council from the Kano State Ministry of Justice, is seeking the death penalty.
“She was married to a man that she didn’t love. She protested but her parents forced her to marry him,” Zubeida Nagee, a women’s rights activist in Kano said. Nagee and other activists have written a letter of protest to the Kano state deputy governor.
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