The mother of Ummakulsum Sani Buhari, the 23-year-old Nigerian who was killed by her Chinese lover, Mr Gheng Chu, has broken her silence. The victim was killed by the Chinese at Janbulo Quarters in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State on Friday night.
The deceased, who was popularly known as ‘Ummita’ attended the Kano School of Nursing and Midwifery. She was buried around 10 am on Saturday, according to Islamic rites.
Speaking on the unfortunate incident, the bereaved mother said, “She was my daughter; he (the Chinese man) always comes around wanting to see her and she has been refusing. This time around when he came, he kept knocking on the door. When I was fed up with him hitting the door loudly, I opened the door and he pushed me aside and got in and started stabbing her with a knife.
“I started shouting and people came running. We rushed her to the hospital but before we arrived, she was dead. It happened around 9.30 pm. We were at home with her two younger sisters when it happened. Her brother was out and her father is dead. It was raining then, people were indoors and couldn’t hear me shouting until when someone came and tried going in through the window.
“I want the authorities to see to this criminal act. It was a long time since their love affair ended. She got married and later got divorced. That was when he came back to her life, pressing that he must see her. He used to come in although we don’t like it he doesn’t understand. We used to chase him out. When I attempted to inform the police, my children would refuse and say let’s not take the matter public.
“The man that came to her aid and went through the window; he was the one who caught him and brought him out. He ran off and they chased him and brought him back. He is now with the police. She was my eldest daughter but she has two elder brothers.
“He understands that she doesn’t want to see him. When he calls, she doesn’t pick up. That’s when he decided to invade. He knocked at the door for almost an hour. She was the one who asked me to go and send him away after which he pushed me away upon opening the gate.
“He went straight to her room. He knows where the room is because he used to come in. In most cases, it’s her brother that used to send him away. They first met at Shoprite when she went to buy perfume and they exchanged phone numbers. That’s how they started making out on calls.
“When she got married, they separated until when she was divorced. Her husband suspects they were chatting with him on the phone although that was not what led to the failure of her marriage. Of course, she told him that she was going to marry him, but because her paternal uncles saw issues coming, they refused and I agreed with them”.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Kano, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa confirmed the incident and promised to provide more information later.
According to Haruna, the command received a distress call on Friday evening at around 10 pm and the Commissioner of Police, Mr Lawal Abubakar, dispatched a team to the scene.
He said, ”the 47- year-old Chinese visited the residence of his girl friend, Miss Ummukulthum Sani, 22 and they engaged in an argument before he allegedly stabbed her many times with a knife.”
Haruna explained that when the Police team reached the scene of the incident they rushed the victim to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital where she was confirmed dead.
Furthermore, Haruna confirmed the arrest of the suspect, saying that an in-depth investigation into the case had been launched on the orders of the Commissioner of Police.
Narrating the incidence to newsmen on Saturday, the mother confirmed that her daughter was in relationship with the suspect before she got married about three years ago.
She explained, ”the marriage failed after three months which made the Chinese to stalk their house although her daughter never paid attention to him.
“But on that fateful Friday evening, the sound of his knock on the gate was too disturbing and I decided to open it and he pushed me and gained entrance to her room.
“He stabbed her multiple times with a knife in spite my struggle to rescue her and my cries for help were also not noticeable due to heavy rain.”
The late Ummukulthum’s mother said that a passerby over heard the scream in the room, gained entrance to the room through the window and got hold of Chu.
She said that the deceased was rushed to the hospital people who came to rescue and she was eventually confirmed dead.
It was gathered that the late Ummukulthum Sani was a youth corps member serving in Sokoto state before her demise.
It was gathered that she was in a relationship with the suspect when she met her ex-hubby and he supported the marriage.
It was also learn that when he heard of her divorce, he returned to her and she reportedly refused to accept him back.
