Hauwa’u Habibu, a 26-year-old woman of Diso Quarters at Gwale Council area of Kano State in Nigeria who has been arrested for allegedly killing her two children aged six and three respectively says she was paranoid and hallucinating when she attacked the minors.
She killed the children with a machete and a pestle on Saturday. The third person she tried attacking (her nephew) survived.
“I am not even aware I killed my children; I saw my son and daughter attacking me with a knife and another weapon. I called my husband and told him what was happening but he didn’t believe me. So, I locked the house and escaped to my mother’s house for safety. The next thing I know was my husband coming to my mother’s house with bloodied clothes saying I killed the children. I used to feel I was being pursued. I even hallucinate a lot but my husband never believed me. Even he himself, I used to see him transforming into a beast with hooves instead of legs.” she said.
Her husband, who took a new wife three months ago, told reporters that she never exhibited any sign of mental illness in their seven-year-old marriage.
“My wife is neither possessed nor suffering from mental illness. That is why the incident touched us seriously because we know she is well and not possessed. Whoever said she is possessed by spirits or has a mental illness is lying,” he said.
He also denied she killed their two kids over squabbles with his second wife.
Police spokesman, Abdullahi Haruna, told The Nation the suspect would be moved to the Criminal Investigations Department.
