Munkaila Ado (27), allegedly murdered Safiya Alhaji Daladi, 13, from the Pali community in Alkaleri local governance area of Bauchi State.
LEADERSHIP discovered that Safiya was four-months pregnant with Munkaila, her boyfriend. He was determined to have the pregnancy terminated.
“The suspect (Munkaila) confessed that the missing girl was his girlfriend who was four-month pregnant to the knowledge of her mother but unknown to the father Alhaji Danladi Mohammed,” SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, police public relations officer in Bauchi said in a statement.
Munkaila killed his lover after an unsuccessful agreement to abort her four month-old Gombe baby.
SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, said, in a conspiracy with the mother of the 13-year-old girl and another accomplice, Mu’azu they, “took the victim to Gombe to procure an abortion, thereafter on reaching Gombe the victim was led to one Hajiya Amina Abubakar ‘f’ 50yr-old house in Jekada Fari behind Specialist Hospital Gombe where the victim was administered with some substances to cause the abortion.”
Munkaila & Muazu strangled Safiya as they returned home. They set her ablaze and buried her in shallow ground.
Wakil stated that the two are being charged with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, and violation of human rights.
