14-year old Wasila Tasiu speaks with her defense counsel outside the courtroom during her first day of trial October 30th. Photo: Getty Images
The father of Wasilat Tasi’u a 14-year-old child bride accused of murdering her husband said yesterday (Nov. 28) Thursday appealed to a High Court outside Kano to spare his daughter the death penalty.
Wasilat Tasi’u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband, Umar Sani, who died after eating food that Tasi’u had allegedly laced with rat poison.
Her father Isyaku Tasi’u told Associated Press,
We are appealing to the judge to consider Wasilat’s plea.
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 in the case of the child bride. On Wednesday witnesses told the High Court in Gezawa, a town 60 miles outside Kano, that Tasi’u killed her husband two weeks after their April wedding. Three others are reported to have died after eating the rat poisoned meal
Women’s rights organizations are calling for the release of Wasilat. Sentencing has been adjourned till December 22, 2014 until then Wasilat is being held in jail.
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