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Sunday, 6 July 2014

Kano state Govt seeks death sentence for alleged killer child-bride

Kano state Government has filed a fresh charge of culpable homicide punishable by death against 14 year old child bride, Wasila Tasiu, who in April 2014 allegedly poisoned her 35 year old husband, Umar Sani and three of his friends in Kano, 17 days after she was forced to marry him. According to  Vanguard, the fresh charge was filed following an outcry by judicial practitioners who were against a juvenile court handling the trial of the 14 year old girl.
 
The three page charge document which was signed by a Senior official of the Ministry of Justice on Behalf of the Kano state Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice reads "Application to prefer a charge under Section 185(B) of the Criminal Procedure code Cap.105 Laws of Kano State 1991, signed on behalf of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice by a Senior State Counsel in the ministry, Lamido A Soron Dinki, lined seven prosecution witnesses. Continue...

 “By the power conferred upon the Attorney General of Kano State of Nigeria under Section 211(1) (a) (b)  and (c) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Code Law Cap. 37 Laws of Kano State which delegate powers, I do hereby seek, under Criminal Procedure Code, to charge for trial of Wasila Tasiu”.
“That you, Wasila Tasiu, 14 years, of Yansoro village , Gaya Local Government Council, on or about the 5th day of April, 2014, at about 14:30 hours, at Yansoro village, Gaya within the Kano Judicial Division, did commit culpable homicide punishable  with death in that you caused the death of four persons.

“Wasila Tasiu allegedly killed Umar Sani, 35, Hassan Alhassan, 25, Nasiru Muhammad, 13, and Indo Ibrahim, 12, by poisoning them with a rat killer substance in their food, with intention of causing their deaths and you hereby committed an offence under Section 221 (a) of the Penal Code Law of Kano State 1990, Cap 105.” it read

Documents of the fresh charge has been forwarded to Wasila's lawyers while hearing for the new charge is billed for August 4th at the Kano State High Court Gezewa.

116 comments:

Anonymous said...

its not fair.. patoswife@gmail.com

vera moore said...

God is watching. hmmmmmmm

smith said...

hahahahahaha. Ftc. Dm neva c anytin o. Da said ntn is wrng is wit underage marriage? I wish da stupid senetor yerima wil folo suite.

Unknown said...

Shocking!!!
State govt???
Death sentence???
14yrs old girl??
Them chop craze??
#inhuman




#Pesty

Unknown said...

If i hear!! Na so e easy to sentence?? They shd park well jo

Anonymous said...

Linda thnks for posting this, I was about to send u a mail about it.


I wonder what is wrong with our northern brothers, why should a girl of 14yrs be given out in marriage, at 14 she is meant to be in SS1 or Jss3, up to 90% of women in the north suffer VVF, they they know the curse of the disease is early child birth. Please give her pen and biro, not penis oooooo. # freewasilanow.

Anonymous said...

Its good 4 d dead man..a man of 35yrs ...marry a 14yrs old girl..may God punish u even in death..I am not supporting her but she should not be killed..na frustration go don make small pikin do dat kind thin..dats how my Gateman is married to a 13yrs old girl..when he is raping her (becos dats not sex or love making)d girl go dey cry....May God help her.Amen

Anonymous said...

dts d results u get from marrying sum1 ur daughter's age_mischieviousness. Ogunaomi@gmail.com

Omo said...

Yeye people, they should let the child go already.
Bunch of perverts.
Since nothing is done to her danger who married off a child in the first place.
I think the parent should be held responsible for the action of the girl ,,,,
She is just a child.

Anonymous said...

dts d results u get from marrying sum1 ur daughter's age_mischieviousness. Ogunaomi@gmail.com

D ROCK said...

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DOBY DOBY said...

Biko she shld nt b killd. . Dis northerners ar smhw.. hw can u force a 14yr old gal to marry sm1 who is much older dan her.. Meanwhile she only intended to kill her hubby. . Na dem sabi shaal..

Anonymous said...

Action time.Pretex4luv@yahoo.com, 08063645540. Mi email is nt functional at d moment.

BONARIO NNAGS said...

I'm always at,lost for words when ever this particular issue is brought to the fore.
Always remind me of the case of a lady whom the former attorney general of the Fed Aondoaka helped secure her release, after spending many years in the prison for bathing her husband and his lover with acid, after she was forced to stay in the same room and watch them make out.
Its quite a pitiable situation.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

Unknown said...

Nawa for these Hausa men oh hasn't she begged for forgiveness!and what were you thinking giving her penis instead of pencil

Anonymous said...

No criminal shall go unpunished...she s a killer n deserves to die

NaNcY DreW said...

Na wa o and is sharia law dey might use dis naama's and deir style of doing tins ***sigh***

Unknown said...

Noooo....this will be too wicked! Afterall the man was torturing her and for God sakes she is a minor.

14 year old girl?.....and they want to kill her...I am absolutely disgusted.

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Anonymous said...

So if they leave this 'Kano govt or whoever is behind Kano govt, they will carry stones and stone this girl to death? Bunch o hypocrites!

Olubukola Ozone said...

Ehya... I feel for her o. Dey shuld at least consider wat d girl was goin thru to av made her resolved to dat. Forcing a 14yr old girl into marriage is not gud either. Its traumatic

Anonymous said...

If I say what's on my mind about this bullshit issue nigeria will scatter. . Jopeyemi@gmail.com

Steveosky 4 Real. said...

The decision is theirs to make. E no
Concern me.. Killing is in thier doctrine already..

Anonymous said...

Whatever they wish

Unknown said...

Wow! They shud have mercy upon dis gurl now....kai!

Bonita Bislam said...

Hmm for them,forgiveness is a sin no matter the age of the culprit.I'm sure even aa mad man will be tried talk more of a sane teenager.Pathetic!

beeteewhy said...

They should go and find the boko haram leaders and sentence them to death for the thousand of lives that they have killed. Poor girl. *what is going on?*

Unknown said...

I think dis aboki ppl are faulty ooooo..haba #Tslicky

Unknown said...

Stupid set of animals... why marry a small girl to an adult in d first place... Barbarism called religion.

Unknown said...

I sincerely don't get what's happening in d North. Scary place by d day

Angie said...

Firstly, that governor must be one of the perverts..; I hope all his 14yr old daughters are also married off to old men as himself.
What the girl did should make any sensible responsible individual to stop those ish abt marrying off *kids..; she's a minor and is to be let off with a warning.

* My R1.50c comment *

Amarachukwu. said...

Ok ooo

Anonymous said...

Why were some of the husband's friends so young? 35 year old man having 11 and 12 year old male friends. Was he molesting those kids as well? The girl can be rehabilitated. She's young. Don't kill her.

Anonymous said...

Alright #bright bravo#

Unknown said...

Ehyaa God pls come for her rescue

Unknown said...

Haaa! Wot a sad tin to hear!
Mamafunkky@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

It is well...lindodo hope u went to church

Zoe Ami said...

Its more of self defense against being forced into early and unwanted marriage. She can't be killed

Anonymous said...

Really! House shameless can this people get?

Anonymous said...

Poor Girl

ary said...

Kano state wants to kill a 14th year old kid who thought murder was only her viable option to escape a forced marriage? Why doesn't that surprise me? When evil men hide behind the cloak of religion to perpetrate all sorts of evil!

Anonymous said...

Are the people in Kano state Government not educated? What kind of people make up these governments in the North IN GENERAL AND KANO IN PARTICULAR or are they looking for the attention of the 'Western World'.Why do we all belong to the same country? For goodness sake, these people should get an education. I have met Muslims in New York , the U.K and even from the middle east and they do not think this way. This girl is 14. Why do these people always want us to talk? This is what builds animosity IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA towards Muslims in Northern Nigeria. Even Muslims from the South West do not think this way. Have Muslims in the northern state govts such as Kano tried to find out what the root cause of the problem is and decide to analyze this? Have they not seen that marrying a child off is an atrocity and that certain cultures should be changed. Mary Slessor came to Nigeria in the 1800s and found out that killing twins was cultural in certain ethnic groups and enforced change. Culture can be changed through education and evidence based social research.The president has the power to enforce positive change with evidence. I blame Obasanjo for not being bold with Sharia. Even hearing some so called Northern Nigerian elites talk is cringe-worthy. Now is the time for the Emir of Kano,Sultan of Sokoto and other prominent Northern Nigerian leaders to come out and say- 'Enough is enough. Stop making us look foolish and stupid'. A regional law should be set up to protect Northern Muslim girls in every way. Shame on Kano state if this story is true . If it is not true, protection groups of so called Muslim elites who have an education and are exposed should arise and take action regarding women and children's rights. If this Nigerian government had been bold and the people of Northern Nigeria had been positively futuristic in their thinking separating religion from their government , Boko Haram would not have been in existence today for a fact! I once watched Obasanjo claiming Nigeria to be a religious country and that he would rather deal with a religious person than an atheist.I wonder why such a religious country is now a laughing stock of non religious countries. Nigeria is a HYPOCRITICAL country. Substitute that for religion and then we could stop living a lie.

Unknown said...

My God, pls from ur merciful power help us set this poor girl free o. ⌣̊┈̥-̶̯͡»̶̥♡thanks ⌣̊┈̥-̶̯͡»̶̥ 

Anonymous said...

Kano state with all its exposure is stii as backward as this. Have any of the judges ever paused to think of the pain the child passed tru for 17 nights in the hand of her foolish husband. I thank God he wll never be around to defile her again

Unknown said...

You see! Why did they have to force her to into marriage, now she's gonna be sentence to death! Wicked practice, is this even Godly? Because if someone force me to marry @ that tender age I might have done the same

Anonymous said...

Kill am na today una start to killed everything kill

Anonymous said...

Dia is God oooooo ehisarthur@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

She deserves to die too (alexjame940@yahoo.com)

APPLE said...

Northern men are Pedophiles (most) that is why they want to kill the poor girl. mtcheeeew. Have you all forgotten yerima?

AMIJEZ said...

Shedding of human blood is nothing to an average northerner. Abeg, make they free the girl, she's a minor.

Adaorah said...

Boko haram kills thousands they are looking for amnesty. A desperate little girl kills some paedophiles they are forming activity. Hiss. They should leave her alone and go and sort out boko haram. Backward fools

Anonymous said...

Kano state Government should be ashamed of themselves. What nonsense. They should be counseling the child so she gets over the sexual abuse that she must have experienced following the marriage and not trying her for murder.
I hope this type of death becomes the faith of all the other goats that marry children in this country and beyond.

Anonymous said...

Although, no ignorant to crime,remember she is still a minnor,I believe is out of fustration of the marriage and she wanted kill the man, unfotunatly the man's friends ate with him. They should be careful in judging her.

Anonymous said...

Although, no ignorant to crime,remember she is still a minnor,I believe is out of fustration of the marriage and she wanted kill the man, unfotunatly the man's friends ate with him. They should be careful in judging her.

BlessingOzoemena said...

They shuld leav this gil elone jare

Anonymous said...

Ok na


XDON D DON

Anonymous said...

This 35 yr old man deserved to be killed, he must have probably raped this small girl who has turned into an adult overnight and killed. This girl is the victim and should be given help, and those demanding death penalty for a 14yr old, may their children be taken away from them for child slavery.

Unknown said...

Muslims sef...when the issue of child marriage was brought upon they supported it, now this is d consequence.. For God sake how would u force 14yr girl to marry a man as old as her father? Marriage is not by force.. I guess the girl is tired and frustrated that's why she acted in that manner

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Lady G said...

Her parents should be ashamed and regretful for putting their child, whom they vowed to protect, in this kind of situation. May this be an example to the law makers that things need to change. The child bride law is disgusting.

CharlesEndy a.k.a Dr.Pepper said...

Pathetic on one hand and laughable on the other. Imagine the extent of personal agony that would have emboldened a 14year old girl to take the lives of others. We can not claim to be 21st century world citizens and continue to hold fast to certain religious or cultural practices that diminishes self-dignity. Obviously she was forced into the union on the premise of religious or cultural demands and now she's chosen an unlawful way to ventilate her dissatisfaction. Anyway, let the law take pre-eminence.

Anonymous said...

IF THE KANO STATE GOVT. SANCTIONS DEATH SENTENCE FOR THIS GIRL AND NOBODY DOES ANYTHING,THEN THE NORTHERNS HAVE SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND ASARI DOKUBO WILL BE CORRECT THAT THE MISSING CHIBOK GIRLS IS A SCAM. JUST SAYING...........

Anonymous said...


Go watch Travis and judith on youtube. This girl is a typical nigerian who marries a white American. Go check her out

Anonymous said...

When they forced a baby into marrying a man old enough to be her father, what were they expecting????
That she lets him rape her continously for life?
How in the world do these Muslims think?
A little girl that is supposed to be In high school, enjoying her innocence.
why didn't that perv marry a matured adult??
And just how merciful is this almighty ALLAH, that every act is punishable by death sentence???
I need a muslim to explain things to me cos am angry much.

Tracyomodon said...

for a child!!!
that government is wicked

Anonymous said...

Y didn't each nd everyone of "em give out dia child @14..nw dey can file cases #nonsense of a no sense

Sandra said...

Rubbish!!! So they just woke up now to take dicisions. This isn't fair o. Derris God o!! Kano state govt. pls don't don't spill blood that will cause famine n plague in ur land. #freeWasila#

Walata said...

Speechless

Walata said...

Speechless

Anonymous said...

SELFISH LOT!!!....THEY WANT TO DETER OTHER CHILD BRIDE, INSTEAD OF PROTECTING THE FEMALE CHILD!!

juliet said...

God will publish this people

Anonymous said...

hmmm....nkemdirimeverista111@gmail.com

Kemikal said...


They must not try it. Why the double standards???

Wasila Tasiu must be set free immediately.

Kano State Government have never publicly asked for death penalty against BOKO HARAM and their SPONSORS.

BOKO HARAM and their SPONSORS killed more people than Ms Wasila Tasiu allegedly did. Those same evil tyrants called for penalties against her have never held any BOKO HARAM murderer accountable for the thousands of people that have been killed by BOKO HARAM and their SPONSORS. BOKO HARAM and their SPONSORS should NOT be above the law.

The Federal Government must scuttle the evil plans of Kano oligarchy and intervene and set Wasila Tasiu free. Wasila Tasiu should be pardoned. Wasila Tasiu should be transferred immediately to Lagos State and relocated to the United Kingdom. She will be granted political asylum in UK. Wasila Tasiu should be helped to escape the evil clutches of the satanic mafia criminals in charge in Kano State.

Free Wasila Tasiu.

Jail the following people for two hundred years:

Ali Modu Sheriff,

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso,

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi,

Atiku Abubakar,

Muhammadu Buhari,

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida,

Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Musdafa,

El Rufai (rotten, corrupt, self-centred, lover of Boko Haram, proud dwarf, aspiring tall person and public nuisance, ... oh, and he runs a covert hateful, malicious & negative media campaigns to sabotage Goodluck Jonathan administration").

Every APC leader may not be a BOKO HARAM sponsor or a crook, but there is something crooked in every APC leader. APC leaders are lizards. Nigeria needs a crocodile as President. A lizard in APC cannot be a crocodile in Aso Rock.

APC, get lost, and take your collaborators and cohorts, BOKO HARAM, with you. BOKO HARAM will be defeated.

Opelicious Morgann said...

Nawa oooo.....death penalty is not the solution. I only wished she had run away instead of killing them. Nawa oooo. Thank God I was born in the south because I can only imagine what the girl must have gone through. And shame on those paedophiles!!!

Anonymous said...

Poor gurl. #Mr Vybez#

Anonymous said...

you can force a dog to the stream but u cant force it to drink. the poor child was just trying to free herself from a lifetime bondage. isn't it crime enough that she was forced? dis is a girl still with childlike dreams, this is d fate of the so-called future generation. what a shameless govt! no conscience! no hope for posterity

Anonymous said...

you can force a dog to the stream but u cant force it to drink. the poor child was just trying to free herself from a lifetime bondage. isn't it crime enough that she was forced? dis is a girl still with childlike dreams, this is d fate of the so-called future generation. what a shameless govt! no conscience! no hope for posterity

Anonymous said...

Chai!!!!!!.....smh

Anonymous said...

shame on u gov.wat do u expect frm her wen u pple gav her out to a man old enuf to b his dad wit 25yrs age diff.dat girl may hv a dream to go 2 sch n b a grt woman bt u pple aborted dat all in d name of early marriage exposing her to many risks esp gynaecological n obstetrics risk.leave her alone.she is jst a child but brave lik an adult.

Anonymous said...

Death sentence for a 14 year old? Too harsh abeg. Not making an excuse for the girl but I'm pretty sure the guy must have forced himself on her and she was traumatized . Yes she should be punished but not death sentence. The girl was definitely not thinking clearly

Anonymous said...

Haba! I knw what she did is weighty but then she's still I minor n shld't face a death sentence. D bereaved family shld forgive her n God will give them d fortitude to bear d loss. Make una sef stop child marriage na.

Anonymous said...

why av u done this to urslf?

Mzz_Mary said...

They should free the girl jooor

Unknown said...

It is well

Unknown said...

But seriously wasila should have thought of something else, kids in her age bracket would have ran away from home. What u did is just damn extreme. I just hope n pray Ure not killed cos u terminated 4 souls, arrgghhhhhhhh.

Anonymous said...

Islam??? No comment.. #cheEzyjayne

phoenix said...

this is what happens when you think its ok for old men to marry babies

Anonymous said...

this is what happens when you think it is ok for old men to marry babies

Unknown said...

"The quality of mercy is not strained it droppeth as a d gentle rain. From heAven upon d place beneath........."

dudette said...

Smh are they ok atall??? Are our govt dat insane?? D damn parents who gave her up for marriage should get d death sentence!! Geez how I wish I could do more dan making comments #arrrrrghhh#

Anonymous said...

...and what judgment was given 2 her parents who forcefully gave her away. Abeg make dem free her joo. The late husband suppose die again sef. Bloody paedos!

Senator said...

Are we talkin abt an adult or a kid here....am sure d legal age still remains 18.. Its time we start carrying out psycho tests on our political leaders b4 voting dem in. #free rat poison 2 all underaged brides#

Anonymous said...

O well, as much as I don't agree with child marriages. She killed 3 people! She wasn't ignorant of going to buy n use rat poison. O well, she shld face d music.

Anonymous said...

O well, as much as I don't agree with child marriages. She killed 3 people! She wasn't ignorant of going to buy n use rat poison. O well, she shld face d music.

Anonymous said...

nawa ooh

Anonymous said...

Only God can save u.

jbankzE said...

Dey shuld let her go,she dd nofin wrong......wea was d law wen dey married her off 2 a man old enuf 2 b her fada....wea was d law wen she needed 2 b free nd go 2 skul,wea was dat same law wen d old 35yr old man was fu*kin her young p**sy...... D law is long dead nd gone so free d lil gal plz.....

~@iamJbankz Olamide's PA~

Unknown said...

She is stll a minor.

Unknown said...

These people are mad!!!!! how can you kill a child? Have they even considered why she felt forced to do that? Like maybe review if young girls should be given out in marriage that young?

Mr Talker said...

Really...the rational behind this child marriage I still do not understand..where is our fundamental human rights? how can a child so young and tender understand what marriage entails! In my opinion I think it serves them right and the bride child doesn't deserve to die...how can a 35yr old make love to. tender girl of this age,what if she gets pregnant..pls do u pple think at all? OMG....

Unknown said...

ok
GOOD...




BORN TO SHINE!!!!

Anonymous said...

a crime is a crime b4 the eyes of the law, the only problem is dat there is no big name behind this little girl, so she's going down. Dis is 9ja.
Tushizzy4real@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

And you want Linda's money?
Sorry, you can't get it

Chiisunshine(carolips) said...

Hausa ppl. Aboki ZOmana!!!!!! Lol. d pain in d neck of nija, killing is iin deir blood. Free d poor gal, her virgina is hurtn, ha heart is hurtn, ha eyez r hurtn, every part of her body ached wit pain. Omg!!!!!! Whattalife!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Na wa o

Anonymous said...

Fuck you stupid bastard. She's a child being molested by an old bastard that can't find grown mature woman mature woman to marry. And I blame the idiot parents. I think d parents should be d ones charged and not d child. The stupid they took her child hood away and they paid for it

Anonymous said...

This is why God use anger dey purnish them for that north. See d kind bulshit they're doing there. Devils. Molest and kill a children for many many years and nobody in this our useless country says anything. Naija( hell on earth).

Anonymous said...

Please this useless bokoharam Muslims should leave this innocent girl alone in as much as am not in support of what she did. She should be set free please she has suffered enough shame on her family that sold her Innocence that turned her into a murderer. May the 35 years old fucking man continue to burn in hell serves him right I pray they ban such cruel laws that imprisons young female children all in the name of religion. Mohammed must have been very high on cocaine to write such in their stupid misleading Quran. God please save this innocent girl I can only imagine the torture she is going through in prison and I won't be surprise if they poison her there.

Anonymous said...

U are a goat. Anu mpa.

Anonymous said...

She probably tot indocide is a seasoning, afterall she's jez a child.
I tink her case shud b examined carefully..

Gim said...

Boko haram that are killing and raping everyday nko? Those are the ones that should not go unpunished... the poor girl was trying to secure her freedom! Do you know how painful sex is for a minor? It is terrible!!!

Anonymous said...

Ur parents didn't make a mistake when they gave u peter Dada, what a name combo! Dem chop crase just like u wey inherit d chopping of crase, nonesense!!!
Peter Dada, hahahaha, once again wat a name combo!!!

Anonymous said...

Linda, pls this should be escalated to the knowledge of the international community, child right activists, etc, that girl must not die for a crime she was forced to commit.
For Heaven,s sake child marriage is morally wrong, let us leave religion out of it. can anyone in the house imagine the trauma a child went through that spurred her to this action

Anonymous said...

O God, I pity the girl, what an assault.

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Anonymous said...

Mr anonymous ima northerner and I'm so with you on this. I mean what do they even expect from her??? It serves them daidai!!

Anonymous said...

Where r our muslim brethren? Later they'll say its not in d Koran but they can't condemn d act. Was it not an imam that joined them? Didn't he see that she was too young and unhappy? Y didn't he ask her if she wanted to get married(just like christians do)? Now they want to kill d innocent girl. Confused set of ppl

Anonymous said...

Where r our muslim brethren? Later they'll say its not in d Koran but they can't condemn d act. Was it not an imam that joined them? Didn't he see that she was too young and unhappy? Y didn't he ask her if she wanted to get married(just like christians do)? Now they want to kill d innocent girl. Confused set of ppl

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