A man, Abdullahi Isa, has been arrested by the police operatives in Borno State for locking up and starving his wife for about two years.
A video clip of an emancipated woman was seen being carried into a waiting ambulance on Friday.
A women and children’s rights activist, Comrade Lucy Yunana, who was seen in the video, brought the case to the attention of the Gwange Police Division.
Yunana disclosed that a woman simply identified as Bulama, who resides in Gwange 3 area of Maiduguri, took her staff to where the victim had been locked up for nearly two years.
According to her: “Thankfully, our staff were conducting some awareness on SGBV in Gwange when Bulama of the area took our staff to the house where she was locked up and what they saw was indeed terrible and prompted us to inform the relevant authority to save the woman’s life.
“They went there along with the Zonal Coordinator of the Human Rights Commission, Barr. Jumai Mshelia, and saw her in the room, in a bad and dehumanized condition. She was taken to the hospital where medics are working to revive her.”
During police investigation, the suspect was reported to have accused the victim, with whom he had seven children, of being tormented by an evil spirit.