by ‘Jola Sotubo

A Fulani herdsman in Kwara has been arrested and charged to court after reports that he killed his young son.

35-year-old Mohammed Kariya is said to have attacked 3-year-old Hassan with a machete and caused his death.

He is said to have attacked another child of three and inflicted serious wounds on him, even causing his stomach to split open.

Leadership reports:

The accused allegedly went to the camp where his wife, Hada Mohammed, was residing on March 10, 2014, at about 2:30pm, took a machete to his three-year-old son, Hassan Mohammed, hacking him to death.

According to the police, Kariya repeated the same act on another three-year-old, Ahmed Usman, inflicting deep cuts on his stomach and rupturing his innards.

Kariya was arraigned on a two-count charge of causing grievous hurt and culpable homicide, contrary to sections 248 and 221 of the Penal Code of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.