25-year-old housewife, Sadiyya Idris and her 4-year-old daughter have been gruesome murdered by unknown assailants in the Labarana rice mills area in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State capital.
Father of the deceased’s housewife, Malam Idris said he was informed around 5 am On Monday morning that some assailants have broken into his daughter’s matrimonial home and macheted her and her 4 years old daughter.
Malam Idris stated this while narrating what happened to the deputy governor of Kebbi state, Colonel Samaila Yombe (rtd) and Wazirin Gwandu Abdullahi Umar who paid a condolence visit to the house of the deceased.
“When I and my relatives came we saw our daughter and our granddaughter in a pool of blood, lifeless, nothing was missing and no traces of the murderers, we want justice for our gruesomely murdered daughter he told government officials who visited on behalf of Kebbi governor”.
He added that himself and the police evacuated the bodies to the hospital before they were released for burial.
In his response, Yombe sympathised with the grieving family and assured them something concrete will be done and prayed to God to give them the fortitude to bear the loss.
According to Vanguard, the elder sister to the deceased, Sahura Muktar, however, said that, Sadiyya’s husband who is a tailor left his house around 1 am for his shop and his wife was killed around 4 am with a machete.
She added that, the lactating mother also left behind a 3 months old baby, she described late Sadiyya as a quiet and very enduring woman who hardly report her marital issues to them her relatives.
Meanwhile, Hakilu Muhammad the husband has been hospitalized at Sir Yahya memorial hospital as he collapsed immediately after he got the news of his wife and daughter’s murder.
The State Police Spokesman, SP Nafiu Abubakar, could not be reached to comment on the incident as at the time of filling this report.
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