17-Year-Old Girl Sets Self Ablaze Over Failure To Marry Her Suitor

The Gusau, Zamfara State capital, was thrown in disarray after a 17-year-old girl, Aisha Bello, set herself ablaze for not marrying the man after her heart in the month of September.

According to a report, she died on Wednesday evening at the Federal Medical Center, Gusau where she was rushed to for urgent medical attention immediately after setting herself ablaze because she feels that she was stopped from marrying her suitor.

A further report had it that Aisha sustained various degrees of injuries after setting her self on fire.

It was further reported that she was admitted at the Federal Medical centre hospital, Gusau, her medical expenses had been sponsored by the state government.

It was learnt that the state government had also promised to arrange for the marriage between Aisha and her suitor, who had no money to pay her bride price as soon as she recovered.

It was also reported that the state Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle had assured the parents of the girl that his administration would pay for the marriage between Aisha and her suitor, Umar Faruku.

The burial of Aisha Bello was attended by hundreds of sympathisers and the suitor of the deceased, Faruku, was seen crying profusely for the loss of his beloved one.

He was saying in Hausa dialect saying “I lost the girl who died because of me and I don’t know what I will do with my life because I loved her so much.”

However, the father of the teenager, Malam Ibrahim, called for prayers for Allah to allow her sou to rest in perfect peace.