Man arrested for allegedly locking and starving his wife for nearly two years in Borno

A suspect, Abdullahi Isa, has been arrested by the police for dehumanising, locking up and starvating his wife for nearly two years in Maiduguri Metropolitan,

The Borno State Police Command has arrested one Abdullahi Isa for allegedly dehum@nising, l%cking up and st@rvating his wife for nearly two years in Maiduguri area of the state.

DailyTrust reports that the suspect was arrested on Friday, June 30, at his residence in the Gwange Three Area of Maiduguri.

When contacted, the Women and Childrens’ rights activist, Comrade Lucy D. Yunana, explained that Bulama of Gwange (3) took her staff to the suspect’s resident where the woman had been l%cked up for nearly two years.

“The suspect by the name Isa Abdullahi of Gwange (3) in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council is the husband of the survivor (name withheld).

We were informed that it was the neighbours that fed her, she has not been given food but most of the time neighbours usually sneaked in and give her food.

Thankfully, our staff were conducting some awareness on SGBV in Gwange when Bulama of the area took our staff to the house where she was locked in and what they saw was indeed t£rrible and prompted us to inform the relevant authority to save the woman’s life.

We went there along with the Zonal Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission, Barr. Jumai Mshelia and saw her in the room, what we saw in the room was in a bad and dehum@nized condition. The man was arrested by men of the Gwange Division of Police and he is currently in the police station,” Yunana said.

Comrade Lucy added that she reach out to the necessary people and the woman has been taken to the hospital for treatment, the medics are currently working on her.

Meanwhile, the suspect claimed that they had seven children together but all are d£ad and his wife has been torm£nted by an ev%l spirit which was the reason he l%ck her up.