Uniabuja 200-level student stabbed to death by his mother’s rival
 
 
Tragedy struck yesterday in the refuse dump area of Kubwa , Abuja, 
after a woman, Rukayat Abdulkareem, allegedly killed her  rival’s son.
The incident happened at about 10 pm.
Rukayat was said to have stabbed, Awal Sani, during an altercation with his mother.
Awal, 18, a 200 level Statistics student of University of Abuja, was said to have tried to calm Rukayat when she insulted his mother.

It was learnt that Awal was billed to resume school on Monday, January 15, 2018.
A younger brother to the late Awal’s mother, who lives with them, 
recalled the incident saying: “Around 10 to 10:30pm yesterday, I heard 
someone banging on the door, I came outside and asked her what she 
wanted and she said she was looking for her husband. I know the woman, 
they were living close to us here in Pipeline before they packed to 
Kaduna road. 
I told her that i would check and see if I can call the husband for 
her, I went inside, I met my sister and informed her that the man’s wife
 was outside looking for him. My sister said she was going to meet the 
woman, i tried to stop her, i told her she was not the one the woman 
came for but she insisted so i followed her cause i didn’t want any 
problem.
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“We met the woman and then I realised that if they start talking, it 
may result to another thing. So, I asked my sister to go inside while I 
went to Pipeline Police Station; I invited a policeman, he asked the 
woman what the problem was; she said she was here to see her husband.The
 policeman asked her to follow him to the station so she can write a 
statement and they will return to pick her husband but she said she was 
not going anywhere so the policeman left.
“I went inside the house and the next thing I heard was that they had
 stabbed Awal, I rushed out, we did all we could to save him, we rushed 
him to the hospital and the doctor confirmed him dead and we brought him
 back home. She had left when i rushed out but the vigilante security 
men caught and brought her later and kept her till the police arrived”.
One of Awal’s friends, who asked not to be named also recalled his 
last moments saying: “I have known him for about  ten years. Last night,
 we were sitting outside together, I was lifting weight under the tree, 
he came outside and met me and said he wanted to go and change his 
phone(from a man he bought it from). We went there and the man asked us 
to return today to get the phone we want, we walked back home, bought 
suya on the way and sat on the bench under the tree chatting about how 
he was getting ready to return to school. 
As we sat there,  a slim woman who covered her head with  a veil 
walked past us, i greeted her the islamic way, (As-salamu alaykum )but 
she did not respond. Awal later went in to sleep but I stayed back still
 lifting my weight, after a while, the woman came back, she had been 
hiding behind the mosque next to the building, she flashed her phone 
torch in my direction but I ignored her and continued with what I was 
doing, she then opened the back door of the car and sat in the back 
seat, she was still inside the car when I went to my own house to sleep. 
I was trying to sleep around 11pm when my brother came to call me to 
come outside, that they have stabbed my friend, I rushed outside and saw
 him in a pool of his own blood with his mother trying to control the 
blood. W we rushed him to a General Hospital; we have all been crying 
since 11pm last night, his mother even fainted twice”.
Awal’s sister, Fatima Sani, a Higher National Diploma (HND II) 
student of Abdul Gusau Polytechnic in Zamfara State, was also stabbed by
 Rukayat said: “A woman (Rukayat Abdulkareem) came here yesterday and 
claimed to have issues with my mother. She was busy insulting my mother 
outside, my mom came out and requested that a policeman should be called
 for her. 
They called the policeman, he came and the woman was invited to 
follow them to their station but she declined and said she was not going
 to follow them because she did not have any issue with them. Right 
there and then, the policeman said since she refused to follow them to 
the station, whatever happens to her is at her own risk. Unknown to us 
that she already had her plan well cooked. 
She was still there insulting my mother, my junior brother, Awal got 
provoked and went to ask why the woman was insulting his mother despite 
not getting response from my mother and of course that is expected of a 
real son who is not a bastard but before we knew it, he was stabbed 
directly in the heart. 
I went out to see what was happening and she also stabbed me on my 
palm and I was also lost lots of blood. My mom who happened to be a 
nurse tried to run all her first aid but it was not working, we rushed 
him to General Hospital and by the time we got there, the doctors 
confirmed him dead.
Contacted, the spokesman of FCT Police Command, Mr. Anjuguri Manzah, a
 Deputy Supretendent of Police(DSP) said the case had been transferred 
to the Criminal Investigation Department  (CID)for discreet 
investigation.
”We have received the complaint and the case has been transferred to 
Command CID for discreet investigation. The suspects including the 
alleged killer and the husband are also in our custody”.
 
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