I’ll name my baby after my mother-in-law I stabbed to death –Pregnant wife who killed husband’s mum

The police in Niger State recently apprehended Fatima Sani, 36 , for stabbing her mother - in-law , Aishatu Umaru, 70 , to death in the Mashegu Local Government Area of the state following a misunderstanding . Sani , who is pregnant , tells ENYIOHA OPARA her account of what happened
How did the misunderstanding between you and your late mother-in -law start ?
The misunderstanding started on the day I got married to her son , Sani Umaru , in March 2009 . His mother did not hide her objection to her son ’s marriage to me . Although my husband was madly in love with me , his mother swore never to allow the marriage to work . In fact, from the time my husband defied his mother ’ s threat not to marry me , there was no love lost between me and my mother -in -law .
Every small matter was easily amplified into a major issue , resulting in a quarrel and physical combat in many cases . She mounted pressure on her son to take another wife . She described me as a good -for -nothing woman so that her son would leave me for another woman . She even threatened to curse her son if he failed to end his union with me .
How many children do you have ?
I got married to my husband in 2009 and we have three children. I am six months pregnant now . I was living in peace with my husband ’s two other wives . I am his last wife and his other wives accepted me and helped me when I came and that helped to move the family forward . All of us were happy as one family. But the greatest problem I had in my marriage was my mother -in- law , who did not want me in that family. My greatest joy was that my fellow wives were giving me support to deal with my mother - in-law ’s hatred for me .
Why did you stab her to death?
Since I came into that family, I had not known anything called peace ; every day was spoilt by my mother -in- law ’s trouble . There was nothing I did that pleased her so I decided to stab her to death so that the problem would be over .
What led to her death started when she accused me of calling my first son a bastard . I was shouting at my first son to go to Islamic school as he was almost late and the teacher would not tolerate that ; even my mother - in-law was aware of it . She called my husband on the phone and said I was calling his son a bastard . Out of anger , my husband sent me out of the house without hearing from me and I went to stay in my father’ s house for two months . During the period, I did not hear from my husband and I kept thinking about it every now and then.
My mother -in- law had a pathological hatred for me ; she swore that my marriage to her son would not work . Even my parents had reported the matter to our village head , telling him to contact my husband to find out from him if he was no longer interested in the marriage so that he could divorce me and I would be able to move on with my life .