Frank Geng-Quandong, a Chinese man resident in Kano State, has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing his lover.

Based on a one-count charge of culpable homicide, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji agreed that Geng-Quandong mudered Ummukulsum Buhari, his Nigerian girlfriend, on September 22, 2022.

“The defendant’s testimony was inconsistent. I hereby find him guilty. I hereby recommend mercy by the Kano State governor on behalf of the convict,” the judge ruled.

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The convict had earlier told the court that he was not guilty, saying he acted in self-defence. He added that the victim betrayed him after she had promised to marry him.

“I didn’t kill Ummukulsum intentionally, but I stabbed her in self-defence after she grabbed my testes,” Geng-Quandong said.

During trial, he told the court that he had spent N60 million on Ummukulsum, buying her a house and some expensive gifts, before their love went sour.

“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 a house worth N4 million, a car worth N10 million, N18 million as capital to start a business, and spent N500,000 buying bags and shoes on for her and N1 million on laces and wrappers and a house in Abuja, which she started building,” he said.

The court was further told that plans were already in motion for the two to get wedded before she married someone else.

“I bought her gold wears worth N5 million, N6 million to go and process her certificate at Sokoto University and N1 million to install a solar system in their house,” the Chinese businessman said.

“When we started preparing for a wedding, I bought her wedding dresses worth N1.5 million, sweets and other dresses they would wear on their wedding day and ‘asoebi’ for her friends and N700,000 new notes for spraying on the wedding day.

“I went to Sokoto to see her family members where I spent N700,000. On the 13th of September 2022, she requested some money to be used in the house she was building in Abuja but I didn’t give her because I didn’t have money then.

“Since then, she [had] stopped answering my calls because she thought I was broke.”

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He stabbed the 23-year-old Buhari at her parent’s residence in Janbulo Quarters, Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano, at the time she was engaged in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.

Her death was confirmed by a medical doctor at the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital.