Nigeria: How Faulty Evidence Freed Woman of Murder Charge

9 February 2013

For Hadiza, wife of late Ibrahim Abutu, a former staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) found dead at his residence on December 28, 2012, judgment finally smiled towards her on February 7, after she was accused of shooting her husband to death over his relationship with another woman.

Shortly after the ruling setting her free, Hadiza, clasping firmly to her child delivered while in prison, told Weekly Trust amidst tears of joy, that she wants to go back with her children to mourn her husband properly, adding that the judgment was a divine one from God.

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