Witnesses Continue To Testify In Chinese-Nigerian's Death Case

Two more witnesses have on Thursday placed the Chinese suspected Kano lover killer at the place of the crime scene.

Taking the stand during a continued court hearing, Mustapha Abubakar, a neighbour to the slain lover told Kano High Court that he saw Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong angrily banging on the victim’s house on September 16 while he was making a call at the front of his house.

Led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel and Attorney General of Kano State, Musa Abdullahi-Lawan, Abubakar revealed that
“I saw the defendant knocking aggressively on the gate of late Ummukulsum’s house.

"I approached him and told him to calm down that the occupants will open the gate.

“At that moment, Frank went to his car and almost immediately started knocking on the gate again. At that moment I left him and continued with my call,” he said.

The witness said a few minutes later, he saw the deceased’s mother outside calling for help.

”She shouted for help saying he wants to kill her daughter.

” I entered the house and attempted to open the door but it was locked.

”I jumped through the window and held the defendant by the collar from the back and saw a knife in his hand with blood, ” Abubakar said.

Also testifying, Inspector Chinda Chinwe, attached to the culpable homicide section at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Kano Police tendered the knife as exhibit”A”.

 ”On September 16,  I was on duty when a case of culpable homicide from Dorayi Babba police station was dispatched to our office at the state CID.

“As the team leader, I asked him what transpired between him and late Ummukulsum, the defendant said she got his number through his friend Asina in 2020.

”The defendant said Ummukulsum told him she wanted to go out with him and he fell in love with her until she got married in 2022." the officer said.

The witness said the defendant told got divorced after six months and they started dating.

The defendant told me that on September 16, at about 9 pm,  Ummukulsum slapped him and scratched his hand when he went to pick up his dog Charlie and threatened to call the police on him.

The defence counsel, Muhammad Dan’azumi, while cross-examining asked Abubakar whether the door was locked from the inside and outside.

Dan’azumi also asked Chinwe how long he worked in the homicide department and he said for more than 20 years.

Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji ordered the remand of the defendant in a Correctional centre and adjourned the matter until Friday for the continuation of the hearing.

Quanrong was arrested at the scene crime where he was accused of stabbing his former lover, UmmuKulsum Sani to death.