A Chadian woman has told the Kano State police command that she lived with her husband for many years without knowing he was a terrorist because the man never disclosed his type of business to her.

She made the disclosure while being paraded by the Kano State Police Command alongside two associates of her husband, Ahmad Adam Abba, who is on wanted list at the Bompai Police Headquarters in Kano.

She said her husband had deceived her into believing he was a trader, but she began to suspect something was amiss when he had an encounter with the Nigerian Immigration Service while renewing his passport.

Her suspicions later deepened when he returned home in the middle of the night with large sums of money in Chadian currency.

The wife recounted how her husband would often hold secret meetings at his elder brother’s house, Bushara, and how she was kept in the dark about his true activities.

The woman said she only became aware of the gravity of the situation when her husband was declared wanted by the authorities and recalled one particular incident where her husband rushed into the house, gathered some documents and cash, and left in a hurry, telling her he would call her later but never did.

According to her, “I didn’t notice any issue in the marriage not until the coincided incidences, when the Nigerian Immigration arrested them in the course of renewing their international passports and the second, when they were said to have killed people.

“He concealed so many things about himself from me. They held secret meetings outside my house. They would go to his elder brother’s house (Bushara’s house). That’s why I didn’t get to know some certain things, not until recently when he travelled to Chad and came back at 12 midnight. The following day when I saw plenty wraps of money (Chadian currency) in a sack bag because he handed the money to me, I became suspicious. When he came back in the morning, I saw him with his friends (strange faces) who had their breakfast in my house.

“They came out one after the other and stood by the frontage (gate) of our house and were talking. I don’t know what the problem was then not until when he came to collect the money he kept with me. So, he returned back with some money which he kept in the wardrobe. By then, his friends had left. After a while, an Almajiri boy who works in my house came to tell me they saw some strange things going on in Bushara’s house as the friends of my husband were running.

“I was plaiting, so I saw him rush into the house, he picked some documents, the cash, and I followed him down to the gate when he was leaving, but he promised to call me. Then I recalled what the Almajiri boy earlier informed me. So I became scared and was crying. Since that day, I didn’t hear from him until his brother, Bushara, communicated with the neighbour.

“He told me he was a trader. We also asked many of his people and they told us the same thing. They said he was trading in Chad. I usually interrogate him to know more about his trade or business, but he would often tell me same story,” she said.

She said her experience had left her with a strong message for parents to always conduct thorough investigations before giving their daughters’ hands in marriage.

“I had miscarriage twice in the course of our stay together. My advice to parents is to always carry out thorough investigation before giving out the hands of their daughter to any suitor whether he is from a neigbouring place or from a far place.”