Chinese national bags death sentence for killing lover in Kano
Justice Sanusi Ado Ma’aji of Kano State High Court sitting at Miller Road, Bompai, has sentenced Quandong Geng, a Chinese national, to death after he was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, Ummulkusum Sani Buhari (Ummita).
Geng stabbed Ummita to death during an argument at her residence in September 2022.
He was nabbed by the police and arraigned for trial in the northern Nigeria State.
During cross-examination in court, he said he attacked his late girlfriend after she got married to another person as he had plans to spend their lives together as a couple.
Geng said “I went to Sokoto to see her family members where I spent N700,000.
“On the 13th September 2022, she requested some money to be used in the house she is building in Abuja but I didn’t give her because I don’t have money then.
“Since then, she stopped answering my calls because she thought I am broke.
He added, “Besides huge amounts of money I used to spend on her, I used to take her out to places like Bristol Palace and Central Hotel to eat food.
“I bought her house worth N4 million, a car worth N10 million. N18 million as capital to start business, and spent N500,000 worth of bags and shoes on her new shop and N1 million worth of laces and wrappers and a house in Abuja which she started building.”
The defence of the Chinese citizen was not enough to convince the court as the judge later convicted Geng and sentenced him to death in response to the gruesome killing.
