Police operatives in Maiduguri, Friday, arrested a suspect, Abdullahi Isa, for dehumanising, locking up and starvating his wife for nearly two years.
A video seen and obtained by DAILY TRUST shows a woman being carried into a waiting ambulance. When contacted the Women and Childrens’ rights activist, Comrade Lucy D. Yunana, who was seen in the video, she said the incident occurred in the Gwange Three Area of Maiduguri, the state capital on Friday.
She explained that Bulama of Gwange (3) took her staff to the suspect’s resident where the woman had been locked 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 terrible 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 dehumanized condition. The man was arrested by men of the Gwange Division of Police and he is currently in the police station.”
