Posted by Abdullahi Isa, a suspect in the dehumanization, incarceration, and starvation of his wife over the course of nearly two years in the Maiduguri Metropolitan Area of Borno State, has been caught by the police.
Men from the Gwange Police Division made the arrest after receiving information from human rights organizations.
On Friday, surveillance footage revealed a woman being helped into an awaiting ambulance.
Comrade Lucy D. Yunana, a women’s and children’s rights activist shown in the video, verified that the arrest occurred on Friday in the Gwange 3 neighborhood of Maiduguri.
She claims that over two years after the crime, Bulama of Gwange released the woman from her home prison.
As she put it, “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 up and what they saw was indeed terrible and prompted us to inform the relevant authority to save the woman’s life.”
She said that she and Barr. Jumai Mshelia, the Human Rights Commission’s Zonal Coordinator, went there and saw her in a poor and dehumanizing state in one of the rooms.
She said she was rushed to the hospital, where doctors are currently trying to bring her back to life.
Suspect Isa Abdullahi said that he and his wife had seven children together who were all killed, and that he locked her up because she was being haunted by a demon.