Wife sets ex-FRCN reporter ablaze

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A legislative aide in the National Assembly, Mohammed Ibrahim Matazu, has died of burns, following alleged attack on him by his second wife.

Matazu, a former reporter in the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Kaduna, was accused by the suspect of spending more time with her senior.
He passed on at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, on Wednesday, eight days after the woman allegedly poured petrol on him and set him ablaze at their Gwarimpa, Abuja residence.
The deceased was an aide to Senator Mohammed Sale (Kaduna Central).
He was first rushed to the National Hospital, then the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada and later the Ahmadu Bello Universith Teaching Hospital (ABUTH).
Matazu’s younger brother, Engr. Magaji Ibrahim, said the suspect was upset that the deceased was spending more time with the senior wife in Kaduna and less time with her (second wife) in Abuja.
Matazu and the suspect got married about a year ago.
Magaji said: “On Wednesday, last week, my elder brother called me that he was coming to Kaduna from Abuja to represent Senator Mohammed Saleh at a meeting with the NNPC in Kaduna, and that the senator was travelling to Imo State for another engagement.
“So, on Thursday morning, I saw missed calls on my phone, and I called the number, only for the voice at the other end to ask me if I was Matazu’s brother, and I said yes.
“He narrated to me what happened to my brother, saying that my brother rushed out of his room with fire all over his body, shouting that the fire was killing him.
“Neighbours rescued him, only for his wife to come out of the house, saying. ‘Where is Matazu?’ By the time she caught up with him, she asked him, ‘What can you do now?’ That was at about 9 am on Thursday.
“When the neighbours asked my brother what happened, he told them that it was his wife that poured petrol on his body and set fire to him. At this point, the neighbours now grabbed her and called the police to arrest her, and she was taken to the police station.
“Although he was in pain, my brother followed them to the police station.
“The incident happened in Gwarimpa, Abuja, when he was preparing to come to Kaduna for the meeting.
“He was later rushed to a hospital in Wuse where he was briefly treated and his body bandaged.
“According to the doctor’s report, 77 per cent of his body was severely burnt. But inspite of that, he was speaking and discussing with people.
“Then Senator Sale came and advised that we should take him to the National Hospital, Abuja for better treatment. By the time we arrived the National Hospital, they said there was no more bed for admission. We headed to the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada only to be told that they were on strike.
“It was at this point that we begged for an ambulance to enable us to take him to 44 Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. We arrived 44 Hospital at about 10 pm and immediately, they started treating him.
“We later moved him to Giwa Specialist Hospital and from there, we took him to Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Shika, Zaria, based on the advice of doctors at 44 Hospital.
“About seven doctors at Shika tried their best and treated him, and my brother was actually responding to treatment. He was passing stool normally and even told me that he would survive, that I should not be disturbed.
“But at about 4 pm on Wednesday, one of my younger brothers called me and said we should take heart and pray to God, that Matazu had given up. He was buried on Thursday at the Kudenda cemetery.
“The suspect said she poured petrol on him because he was spending more time with the first wife in Kaduna. But my brother was always in Kaduna because of the assignments the senator gave him to supervise the digging of boreholes in his constituency. So, he used to spend 10 days in Kaduna going round the seven local government areas that make up the constituency before going back to Abuja.
“He would spend almost five days in Abuja before coming back to Kaduna again to continue with the work. But the wife continued to complain that he was not spending enough days in Abuja.
“She was his second wife. He married her about a year ago and she had no child for him while the first wife has six children.
“She is being detained at Wuse police station in Abuja.”
Senator Mohammed Sale described the late Matazu as “a very pleasant and friendly personality. He contributed a lot to the development of our party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and my legislative duty.
“He was actually the pillar of my office.”