Housewife allegedly kills stepdaughter to teach rival ‘how to respect superiors’

The accused gave her stepdaughter local insecticide ‘otapiapia’ to drink which caused her death.

Zulac, who was arrested by the police in Niger state, accused the second wife to her husband of insulting and assaulting her regularly, hence her resolve to teach her a lesson.

Newsdiaryonline.com gathered that the suspect had not been in good terms with the second wife because she resented the second marriage to the late wife.

Speaking to newsmen when she was paraded by the Police in Minna, she said, “I warned my husband to desist from getting another wife in the family but he could not listen. The second wife was  in the habit of insulting and assaulting me at all times and one day I decided to poison her eight month old daughter to death to increase her sorrow in the family, so that she  will learn how to respect her superior in the family.

“Before my husband married her which I kicked against, we have been living in peace but when she came she divide the family. My husband gave her more attention than myself and since then our family had been in shambles,” she explained.

Zulac said that she did not know when she carried out the act stating that it was the work of the devil.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muhammad Abubakar said the suspect would would be arraigned in court after investigation.