I stabbed, didn’t kill my Nigerian girlfriend

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A 47-year-old Chinese national, Mr Frank Geng-Quangrong, who is standing trial for culpable homicide, on Thursday, admitted before a Kano High Court that he stabbed his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, with a knife.

The Chinese, who resides in Railway quarters, Kano under cross-examination by the Prosecution Counsel, Kano State Director, Public Prosecution, Mrs Aisha Mahmoud, told the court that on a lot transpired between the defendant and the deceased.

Also, Geng-Quangrong told the court that he arrived in Nigeria in 2019 to work, as a Marketing and Sales Manager at BBY Textile Company Kano, adding that he was paid N1.5 million monthly and engaged in some other side businesses.

He told the court that on that fateful day, he stabbed the deceased without the intention of killing her after she pushed him on the bed.

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“I escaped from the room through the window, because the door was locked from the outside and wanted to take Ummukulsum to the hospital but the police promptly arrived and arrested me,” Geng-Quangrong said

The Defence counsel, Mr Muhammad Dan’azumi, presented a Urologist, Dr Abdullahi Abubakar, as a defence second witness.

The PUNCH reports that Quangrong had earlier told the court that Ummukulsum injured him on his genitals.

However, Abubakar told the court that he has been a practicing Urologist for over 30 years and he taught at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital for 13 years.

“I retired in 2018 but still in active practice. In the human body, the testicle is more sensitive because it has sensory nerves when it is pulled, fright, fight and flight will occur and cause inflammation problems and may cause erectile dysfunction and urinary problems.

“As a result, the blood pressure will drop, there will be low level of oxygen in the brain and the patient may faint or get shocked, so in order to survive the action, you try to fight the situation,” he said.

Mahmoud alleged that the defendant, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, on September 16, 2022, stabbed the deceased with a knife in her house at Janbulo Quarters Kano.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravenes the provisions of Section 221(b) of the Penal Code.

Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji, who ordered the defence counsel to furnish the prosecution with their witness list and medical dictionary adjourned the matter to April 6, 2023, for cross-examination and continuation of defense.

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