Kano State High Court has sentenced a male Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, to death by hanging for the murder of his girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani Buhari, popularly known as Ummita.
Quangrong was accused of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend, Buhari, but denied killing her intentionally and pleaded with Justice Sunusi Ado Ma’aji of the Kano State High Court to temper justice with mercy.
In his testimony on Tuesday, Quangrong claimed that he stabbed his girlfriend in self-defence after she allegedly grabbed his testes in September 2022.
Quangrong explained that he arrived in Nigeria in 2019 to work as a marketing and sales manager at BBY Textile Company in Kano.
“I was paid N1.5 million monthly and I also do some other side businesses. On that fateful day, Ummukulsum pushed me onto the bed. I stabbed her without the intention to kill her.
“I went out of the room through the window since the door was locked from outside and wanted to take Ummukulsum to the hospital but then, the police arrived and arrested me.
“I didn’t kill Ummulkhulsum intentionally but stabbed her in self-defence after she grabbed my testes,” Ouangrong said.