A 47-year-old Chinese citizen, Frank Geng-Quangrong, who is under trial for culpable murder, on Thursday, acknowledged before a Kano State High Court that he attacked his Nigerian lover, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, with a knife but had no desire to kill her.
Geng-Quangrong, who dwells in Railway quarters, Kano, during cross-examination by the prosecution counsel, Kano State Director, Public Prosecution, Aisha Mahmoud, informed the court that on that fateful day, a lot occurred.
Geng-Quangrong, who came to Nigeria in 2019 to work as a marketing and sales manager at the BBY Textile Company in Kano where he earned N1.5m monthly, told the court that on that fateful day, Sani forced him into bed, and he stabbed her without the aim of murdering her.
“I fled from the room via the window since the door was barred from the outside and intended to take Sani to the hospital but the police soon came and detained me,” Geng-Quangrong added.
Yet, it should be noted that Geng-Quangrong had informed the court that Sani harmed him on his genitals.
The defence counsel, Muhammad Dan’azumi, brought a urologist, Abdullahi Abubakar, as a defence second witness.
Abubakar informed the court that he had been a practising urologist for over 30 years and he taught at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital for 13 years.
“I retired in 2018 yet I am still in active practice. In the human body, the testicle is more sensitive since it contains sensory nerves when it is tugged, terror, fight and flight will occur and produce inflammatory issues and may cause erectile dysfunction and urine difficulties.
“As a consequence, the blood pressure will drop, there will be a low amount of oxygen in the brain and the patient may faint or be shocked, therefore to survive the action, you attempt to battle the situation,” he stated.
Mahmoud said that the defendant, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, on September 16, 2022, attacked the dead with a knife in her residence at Janbulo Quarters, Kano.
According to the prosecutor, the crime contravened the requirements of Section 221(b) of the Criminal Code.
Judge Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji, who directed the defence counsel to supply the prosecution with their witness list and a medical lexicon, postponed the hearing to April 6, 2023, for cross-examination and continuation of defence.
