What I’ll Do Upon Delivery – Pregnant Mum Who Killed Mother-Inlaw

A 36 year pregnant woman who stabbed her mother-inlaw to death has declared what she would do with her new baby upon giving birth.

But in the mean time, Fatima Sani, is in police custody over allegedly killing the woman, Aishatu Umaru, 70 in the Mashegu Local Government Area of the state

She said she took the action to end the spate of hatred that the late mother-inlaw had had on her from the inception of the marriage..

“Since I came into that family, I had not known anything called peace; every day was spoilt by my mother-in-law’s trouble. There was nothing I did that pleased her so I decided to stab her to death so that the problem would be over”, she confessed in an interview with Punch.

Admitting the severity of what she had done, yet asking Allah to take over, she had regretted her actions, a proof of which would be to name the yet-to-be born baby, if a gir, after her late mother-inlaw, Aishatu.

In her words: “The truth is that my mother-inlaw did not want me to have peace in my matrimonial home; Allah should settle everything and may Allah be praised. I am begging the state government to temper justice with mercy and consider my condition. When I deliver my baby, if she is a girl, I will name her after my mother-in-law. I will name her Aishatu; that was my mother-in-law’s name. It will show I’m remorseful”.

Asserting that the problem started the day she got married to her husband,  Sani Umaru, in March 2009, she narrated: “His mother did not hide her objection to her son’s marriage to me.

“Although my husband was madly in love with me, his mother swore never to allow the marriage to work. In fact, from the time my husband defied his mother’s threat not to marry me, there was no love lost between me and my mother-in-law.

“Every small matter was easily amplified into a major issue, resulting in a quarrel and physical combat in many cases. She mounted pressure on her son to take another wife. She described me as a good-for-nothing woman so that her son would leave me for another woman. She even threatened to curse her son if he failed to end his union with me.

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“ I am six months pregnant now. I was living in peace with my husband’s two other wives. I am his last wife … But the greatest problem I had in my marriage was my mother-in-law, who did not want me in that family…

“What led to her death started when she accused me of calling my first son a bastard. I was shouting at my first son to go to Islamic school as he was almost late and the teacher would not tolerate that; even my mother-in-law was aware of it.

“She called my husband on the phone and said I was calling his son a bastard. Out of anger, my husband sent me out of the house without hearing from me and I went to stay in my father’s house for two months. During the period, I did not hear from my husband and I kept thinking about it every now and then.

“On April 23, 2020, around 3pm, something came upon me; I took a knife and went to her room. I saw her sleeping; she was on the bed with my third son, Naziro. I shifted my son away from her and stabbed her to death. It is unfortunate.

…. For 11 years, I knew no peace in my marriage just because of somebody who did not want my marriage to succeed. It is too bad we have found ourselves in this society; may Allah help us.

Despite what happened, my husband has refused to divorce me because he loves me a lot. He even ignored my family’s quest to end the marriage if he was not interested. He feels sorry that I am still in detention despite my condition (being pregnant). I know he is taking his time to sort things out at the appropriate time.

“Yes, I regret my action; I feel like killing myself. Irrespective of what had happened, I shouldn’t have done that. I know I have done something that even Allah will not forgive me for.

“Honestly, I couldn’t imagine myself committing such a wicked act. I didn’t believe that I could stab my mother-in-law over our misunderstandings. I pray the family finds it in their hearts to forgive me; it was done because of extreme provocation”.