A 35-year-old Bauchi housewife, Hauwau Haruna, has confessed to k!lling her co-wife, Jamila Adamu, claiming the deceased repeatedly appeared in her dreams, attempting to k!ll her and her children.
LIB reported that the Bauchi State Police Command arrested Hauwau on Sunday, September 27, 2026 for k!lling Jamila with a pestle.
Speaking in an interview at the Bauchi State Police Command headquarters, Hauwau said she regretted her action.
She said she has lived with Jamila for more than 16 years.
“I was arrested and brought to the Bauchi State Police Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for committing a murder,” she said.
Explaining what led to the incident, she said Jamila had been appearing to her in dreams and attempting to k!ll her and her children.
“She (Jamila) was appearing to me in my dreams attempting to k!ll me and my children. Although the story is a long one, she came yesterday (Sunday). The incidents in the dream have been happening for a while,” she said.
According to her, Jamila appeared to her in the form of a “cat” on Sunday.
“She came yesterday in the form of a cat and I woke up in the dream and Allah helped me to pick up my food flask on my side and struck at the cat and she went out of my room,” she said.
Hauwau said that as she chased the cat away, it allegedly metamorphosed into her co-wife, who was standing in front of her room.
“Already beside my room there was a pestle used by children to break palm fruits, so I quickly took up the pestle and started hitting her with the pestle, telling her that you cannot k!ll me because you have continued to harm me. Before you k!ll me, I will k!ll you,” she said.
“I continued hitting her with the pestle until she fell to the ground,” she added.
Hauwau said she became confused about what to do after the incident but later rushed into her room, picked up her newborn twins and fled the house.
“I strapped one to my back and held the other child in my hand. I rushed out of the house and started running to look for a commercial motorcycle (Okada),” she said.
She said after getting an okada rider, she went to her parents’ house, explaining that she initially intended to surrender herself at the estate police station.
“I initially intended to present myself to the estate police station but I was scared of mob action and fear of them attacking me alongside my twins. My intention was to keep my newborn twins with my mother for safekeeping,” Hauwau said.
She said she told her mother to take care of the twins before surrendering herself to the police.
Hauwau said her mother stopped her from going to the police station and contacted her elder brother.
Asked whether she had reported the alleged dreams to her husband, Hauwau said he had dismissed her concerns.
Efforts to get the reaction of her husband, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim (Askiya), were unsuccessful.