The Police Command in Yobe State has said that it has started investigating Ibrahim Bature, a husband who allegedly detained one Sadiya, his wife, for one year, at their home in the Nguru area of Yobe State.
A source told newsmen that the victim who’s a mother of four children, fed only on pap during the period.
The source also said that the victim’s mother, Hadiza, had been denied access to her daughter for a long moment.
She eventually moved from Kano to their residence in Nguru community, and saved her daughter.
The spokesperson of the police command, Abdulkarim Dungus, while confirming the incident said that the police command has started an investigation into the matter.
He also disclosed that the husband has been invited to the Divisional Police Officer in Nguru to assist the investigation.
He added that the wife is receiving medical attention in a hospital in Kano.