Farida Abubakar, 30, was arrested by police in connection with the murder of her estranged husband Attahiru Ibrahim Zagga in Birnin Kebbi, the Kebbi state capital.
State police spokesman SP Nafiu Abubakar, who issued a statement on Friday, August 26, said Ibrahim, a magistrate of the Kebbi state judiciary, was stabbed to death at his home in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday evening.
“At around 9:40 p.m. on 25.8.2022, police officers from Divisional Police Headquarters, Gwadangaji received information that an alleged strange noise was heard from the home of a neighbor, one Attahiru Ibrahim ‘M’ from Alieru Quarters, Birnin Kebbi, and its gate was also locked,” the statement said.
“Upon receiving the information, a team of police officers were quickly mobilized to the scene and forced their way into the home, where they found said Attahiru Ibrahim lying in a pool of his own blood and was later pronounced dead by a doctor.
“Similarly, his estranged wife, a 30-year-old Farida Abubakar ‘F’, was also seen at the compound.
Therefore, she was suspected and arrested in connection with the case.
“Consequently, the Commissioner of Police, Kebbi State Command, CP Ahmed Magaji Kontagora, had instructed the DPO to immediately transfer the case to SCID, Birnin Kebbi, for a discreet investigation to clarify the circumstances of the ugly incident,” he added.
Meanwhile, a former classmate of the deceased, Aminu Ubandoma, confirmed the incident on Friday.
“Innalillahi wa’inna ilaihin raji’un. Attahiru Ibrahim Zagga Esq was stabbed yesterday at his home in Birnin Kebbi, until his death he is Magistrate Judge in the Kebbi State Judiciary, he was my classmate at university, we attended Nigerian Law School together and stay in the same room on the Yenagoa campus. May his soul rest in Jannatul Firdausi,” he wrote
