Yet-to-be-identified persons have slaughtered a 42-year-old woman, Ammi Adamu Mamman in her residence at Bra Bra Housing Estate in Damaturu, Yobe State capital.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Yobe State Police Command, DSP Dungus Abdulkareem who stated this in a statement on Friday said the woman was found dead with a deep cut on her neck.
The statement added that the state criminal investigation department had commenced an investigation to fish out the culprits, though the husband was arrested for interrogation.
According to the statement, one Abubakar Musa, 43, of New Bra Bra Housing Estate bye pass Maiduguri road in Damaturu was sleeping on the same bed beside his wife, Ammi Adamu Mamman, 42 when she was stabbed with an object on her neck, resulting in heavy bleeding and death.
The statement reads in part: “Finding revealed that the couple are staff of the Yobe State University (YSU) Damaturu.
“The command condoled with the bereaved families as efforts intensified to unravel and arrest the perpetrators.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Yobe state Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Rajab Mohammed Ismail, said the union has strongly condemned the incident and called on the security agencies to deepen the investigation to fish out the culprits.
“We are also calling on our colleagues, the journalists to follow up on the matter by giving maximum publicity to enable the arrest of the suspects to prevent future occurrence,” he said.
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