How Chinese, Geng, Killed My Sister –
A younger sister to the late Umukulsum Buhari a woman allegedly killed by a Chinese national, Mr Geng Guanron, her ex-lover, has told the Kano High Court that she saw her sister being “stabbed to death with a knife.”
The sister of the deceased, Asiya Sani stated this while testifying against Geng before the court in the ongoing trial of the Chinese.
This came on the heels that
Geng had earlier denied killing his ex-lover, Ummukulsum.
She said she peeped through the window and saw him rough handling her on the bed and in the process, stabbed her.
According to her, “On that fateful day, 16th September, 2022, around 9 pm, the Chinese national came knocking on our main gate.
“I was about to open the door when my late sister, Ummukulsum stopped me and I told her how can we allow him to continue to knock on the door and disturb others in the neighbourhood. She told our mother that she had the right to stop him from coming to the house.
“Immediately, our mother opened the door, he hurriedly gained access to the house. When he came in, Ummukulsum said to our mum, you see he has come in and I will call the police to arrest him. It was when she went into the room that he followed her and locked the door.
“We peeped through the window and saw him rough handling our sister. We screamed for help. He brought out a knife. It was at that point that Ummu was begging him. Before our neighbour, Mustapha, jumped in through the window, he (the defendant) stabbed her. I saw blood rushing out of Ummu’s neck. He (Geng) came out through the window of the sitting room. He rushed out of the house.
“It was after that that neighbours started coming into the house and making attempts to take her to the hospital. We were advised to wait for the police to come.”
Tiv Area Traditional Council (TATC) has enjoined all politicians and their agents to exercise restraint in the use of offensive language and hate speeches during campaigns in order to maintain peace and human dignity in Tiv land.
In a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting held in Gboko under the chairmanship of the Tor Tiv and paramount ruler of the Tiv Nation, His Royal Majesty, Orcivirigh Professor James Ayatse, the council urged politicians to focus on issue based campaigns.
It also condemned in strong terms the incessant, brutal and mindless attacks on innocent, unarmed farmers and farming communities especially border communities and appealed to the federal government to expand the numerical and technical capacity of security operatives especially Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) to fight terrorists and bandits with greater firepower to guarantee safety of lives and property.