Attempted murder: Adamawa six-year-old girl recovering

The six-year-old girl nearly slaughter by her mentally deranged father in Yola is responding to treatment according to hospital official.

The Information officer, Federal Medical Center, Yola , Adamu Dodo told our reporter yesterday that Zahra’u had had successful surgery which increased her chances of survival.

Doctors had indicated that the little girl had 50-50 chances of survival before the surgery when they could not immediately rule out infection.

The girl was rushed to the hospital after her father slit her throat with a kitchen knife, leaving her in critical condition.

When questioned by neighbors, who came to the girl’s rescue, the father, Saidu Dan iya, popularly known as Baban Aisha, said she just felt like cutting his daughter’s throat.

North East Trust gathered that the incident occurred when the little girl was at home with her father after her mother went out to a house where she worked as house help.

A day after the attack, the doctor who attended to Zara’u, Dr. Elkannah Patrick, said the girl had been stabilised and that her likelihood of survival was 50-50

“We cannot determine yet if there is infection. We hope there is none because infection will seriously imperil her chances of survival,” he said.

The Head of Clinical Services of the FMC, Yola, Dr Yerima Suleiman Yusuf, said the hospital would treat Zahra’u free of charge in consideration of her family’s poor economic condition.

“We have a Paupers’ Fund from which we will treat this patient because we realize that the mother is not ready and the father is a psychiatric case”, the official said.

Family members said that Saidu, who suffered from mental disorder, had received treatment at a psychiatric hospital where he spent a month recently.

The police Spokesman in Adamawa State Command, DSP Suleiman Nguroje, confirmed the arrest of the suspect, adding that investigation was in progress.