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Gezawa (Nigeria) (AFP) - A packed
Nigerian court heard testimony on Monday that a 14-year-old girl
admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a
police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write.
Wasila Tasi'u,
from a poor and deeply conservative Muslim family, has been charged with
murdering her husband Umar Sani days after their marriage in northern
Kano state.
Because she did
not understand English, homicide investigator Abdullahi Adamu translated
her statement from the Hausa language dominant in the region and gave
her the document to sign.
She
could not write her name, so "she had to use a thumbprint," he told the
court during his testimony on the last day of the prosecution’s case.
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