The father of a 14-year-old child bride who allegedly murdered her husband said Thursday he was appealing to a Nigerian court to spare his daughter from being sent to the gallows.

Wasilat Tasi'u is on trial for the murder of her 35-year-old husband, Umar Sani, who died after eating food that Tasi'u allegedly laced with rat poison.
"We are appealing to the judge to consider Wasilat's plea," her father, Isyaku Tasi'u, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

On Wednesday witnesses told the High Court in Gezawa, a town 60 miles outside Nigeria's second largest city of Kano, that Tasi'u killed her husband two weeks after their wedding in April. Three others allegedly died after eating the poisoned meal.

The prosecution, led by Lamido Soron-Dinki, senior state council from the Kano State Ministry of Justice, is seeking the death penalty.

The case calls into question the legality of trying a 14-year-old for murder under criminal law and the rights of child brides, who are common in the poverty-stricken, predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria region.

"She was married to a man that she didn't love. She protested but her parents forced her to marry him," Zubeida Nagee, a women's rights activist in Kano, told AP. Nagee and other activists have written a letter of protest to the Kano state deputy governor.

Nagee said Tasi'u was a victim of systematic abuse endured by millions of girls in the region. Activists say the blend of traditional customs, Islamic law and Nigeria's constitutional law poses a challenge when advocating for the rights of young girls in Nigeria.

Justice Mohammed Yahaya adjourned the court until December 22. Tasi'u is in state juvenile custody.

Source: http://www..com.ng/

This is a case of Juvenile/minor. Such things happen when a minor is forced into marriage for exchange of money. This serves as an eye opener to old men seeking to marry a minor. As for the death sentence on the part of the girl, I believe it is inappropriate since, ab initio the girl was not ready for the said marriage.

This people are just animals and bastards.

Something like this doesn't happen here in Cuba

That is the beauty of Sharia.... Allah be praised.

Yerimarism Ideology

Our Judicial system, the police and army are now controlled by Emperor Jonathan, so nothing works again. There is no reason she should not be given justice under the Juvenile law.




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bloody Muslims forcing their kids to marry

Abbey2sam:
TGIS

adami:
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sommyblaze:
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yuzjet:

Kayworld26:

SaiBuharii:
Gggf

what Nah

moufan:
you are maaad.crazy fuckin nigga

bloody Muslim go bomb a building if you are pained

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Stu..pid pple,forcing a 14 yr old girl to marry. If I were in her shoes I would hide a knife or razor blade in my pocket and cut his d..ick when he wants to do, she was even kind. If I hear say them give her death sentence,she is underage....awon oshi

Na wa ooo.

Na dem sabi jo!

Hahahaha...I laugh in dorohot.

tarryT:
That is the beauty of Sharia.... Allah be praised.

This is the Sharia that Boko Haram are fighting for and that the North is supporting !!!

SMH

TGIS

I do not support what the Girl did but death sentence is way over board.






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well d parents shud be arrested first! Northern leaders has failed d north! Deprive d people of education wat a scheme

So the killings being perpetuated by those animals (BH) never do una ko?

They should tamper justice with mercy

[quote author=theassassin post=28444012]This people are just animals and bastards.

Something like this doesn't happen here in Cuba[/quote

even Amsterdam ]

Nonsense,death penalty for what
How will u force a 14yr old girl to marry a 35 yrs old man You already sentenced her to death cause she'll be unhappy for life. What is more frustrating than being forced into marriage at a very young age?? At 14 her life is yet to start and you r forcing her into marriage. I would do the same if I were in her shoes and she's still underage so the death sentence cannot apply to her

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So,finally they've decided to kill this little girl?A girl that ought to have been protected by the law is about to be killed by misinterpretation of the law.
She committed a serious offence but two wrongs don't make a right.I'm not a good human activist but...

Made FP again




signs of me winning 11,000,000 baba ijebu

The girl is 14, she is too young to be held responsible. She is a minor.

May her dead husband rot in hell. Pedophile.

What a sick country!

Hmmm

should serve as a lesson to those who rob children of their rights.
and who sentence the child to death and under what law of the FRN did he do that?

abi na under the wicked religion as usual?

theassassin:
This people are just animals and bastards.

Something like this doesn't happen here in Cuba

not even in

Jah Land
Jamaica

arise africa
ya man respect 2 each mans choice
no slavery

Why sentence a child to death?that judge must be high on some made in china weed.