{"id":392015,"date":"2021-09-08T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=392015"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:45:20","slug":"forced-marriage-19-year-old-woman-allegedly-stabs-husband-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=392015","title":{"rendered":"Forced marriage: 19-year-old woman allegedly stabs husband to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Adamawa Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old woman, Rumasa\u2019u Muhammed, of Wuro Yanka Village in Shelleng local government area for allegedly stabbing her husband to death.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesperson in the state, confirming the incident on Wednesday in Yola, said the suspect was arrested on Monday for allegedly stabbing her husband, Muhammed Adamu, 35 to death after seeking for divorce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dInvestigation so far reveals, that the suspect was forcefully married to the deceased by her parents against her will on Aug. 6,\u201d Nguroje said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Alhaji, has given a directive for a discreet investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Commissioner has equally advised members of the public to stop forcing their wards into early and forceful marriages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIn the same vein, the Commissioner, has directed for immediate prosecution of the suspect so as to serve as deterrence to others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) over the incident, Ustaz, Abdullah Hamman, an Islamic Scholar in Yola, said forceful marriage has no place in Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAccording to Islam, parents have rights to choose for their children a good family to marry from but at same time, Islam does not encourage forced marriages,\u201d Hamman said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need for the parents to desist from forcing their children into marriage saying, such practice was causing a lot of harm in the society.<\/p>\n<p>NAN also reports that a family source, who pleaded to remain anonymous, said: \u201cthe girl demanded that her late husband divorce her peacefully since she was not interested in the marriage. He refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAngered by this after several requests, she picked up a knife and stabbed him in the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old woman, Rumasa\u2019u Muhammed, of Wuro Yanka Village in Shelleng local government area for allegedly stabbing her husband to death. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesperson in the state, confirming the incident on Wednesday in Yola, said the suspect was arrested on Monday for allegedly stabbing her husband, Muhammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,257,61],"class_list":["post-392015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-adamawa","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/392016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}