Rahimat Salaum
By Abdullahi Abubakar
The police in Abuja have arrested a 23-year-old housewife identified as Rahimat Salaum for killing of her husband.
Gathered that the suspect killed her husband after a fight ensued between them. She was said to have pummelled her partially paralysed husband to death.
Josephine Adeh, FCT Police Public Relations Officer, in a statement on Tuesday, stated that the suspect subsequently led the police operatives to an uncompleted building where she dumped the gruesomely burned body.
The statement reads in part, “The operatives of the FCT police command attached to Pegi Police Division, on July 29, 2024, at about 6:00 p.m., acting on credible intelligence, arrested one Rahimat Salaum ‘F’ of Pegi, Abuja in connection to the killing of her husband.
“The suspect was attempting to flee with the belongings of the partially paralysed husband and had been reportedly missing for about three days in a mini truck when police operatives swooped in and apprehended her.
“Upon interrogation, the suspect admitted to killing her husband after a fight ensued between them. She subsequently led the police operatives to an uncompleted building where she had dumped the gruesomely burned body.
“While investigation is still ongoing, the commissioner of police, FCT, CP Benneth C. Igweh, psc, mni, wishes to affirm that justice will be served in the matter.
