A 38-year-old mother, Kwaseve Fagal, has said that she
decided to kill her newborn son without giving the act a second thought because
she desired to become wealth overnight.
Mrs Fagal, who hails from Gakerko village, Keana Local
Government area of Nassarawa State, revealed that she had been troubled over
her husband’s inability to overcome poverty despite the fact that they worked
daily to make ends meet.
According to her, rather than get reprieve through their
toils, the situation worsened to a point that putting food on the table became
a difficult task. Sometimes, according to her, the family stayed for days
without food, and she slipped into emotional despair. She stated this while been paraded at the Criminal
Investigation Department of the Nasarawa State police command.
Mrs Fagal said: “Life became very difficult for my husband
and I, to a point that having food daily became a problem, not to talk of
catering for the two children we already had.
“The kids were not feeding well; we go hungry for days
because we don’t have money to buy food.
“Though we are farmers, things didn’t just work well for us.
That was why when a herbalist in our community, Alhaji Abass Loko, who hails
from Kaduna State approached me with an offer to lift the burden of abject
poverty, I gladly accepted.
“I was six months pregnant when he offered me help, I
grabbed it pleasantly, even though the price was my unborn baby.” Police Commissioner in the state, Abubakar Sadiq-Bello, said
“On August 14, 2017, the housewife who had nursed a full-term pregnancy, was
delivered of a baby boy in her home at, but the joy of her husband, Paul Fagal,
aged 40, evaporated shortly after.
“Though the couple, peasant farmers, earlier had two
children in their 14 years of marriage, the arrival of the new baby lifted the
drowning soul of his father who had been toiling over the years, albeit with
difficulty, to fend for his family. “Unknown to Paul, his wife had been suffocating as they
laboured for survival in their years of wedlock and was waiting on the devil
for help.
“Acting on the instruction of a herbalist, she discreetly
took the infant to a secluded area of the community shortly after birth and
killed him. Then, she took his blood in a clay pot and dumped the remains in a
nearby stream. “But the bubble burst as the sudden disappearance of the
baby aroused apprehension in the community, amid suspicion that the mother from
hell might have committed sacrilege.
“After summoning all the women in the community for
interrogation, a threat by the village head, Mathew Oloko, to further conduct orthodox
and traditional probe into the incident, unveiled Kwaseve as the perpetrator of
the dastardly act. “She eventually led a search party to a stream where the
decomposed body of the baby was recovered, but kept sealed lips on the motive
for the act till she was arrested and taken away by the police.”
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