Hanifa Hamiyat wanted to kill her Christian neighbors because her imam had told her killing Christians is good. It seems she was mad at them for inviting her daughter to visit their church in Nabiganda, Kenya.
In response, Hanifa poisoned food she gave to Doreen Nairuba and her husband, Jackson Wampula, who died the next day, March 16, a local resident reported to Morning Star News.
Doreen was six months pregnant. In trying to kill the Christian couple, she also killed her daughter, Marriam, 18, who unwittingly ate some of the food with the neighbors.
Doreen had been sharing her faith with Marriam and had taken her to church. The teen had recently finished high school exams and was awaiting results to determine if she would be accepted into college.
A Muslim neighbor saw the Christian couple leaving for church with Marriam and returning with her that afternoon. The neighbor informed Hanifa, who asked the man to find out where her daughter had been, according to Morning Star News.
At about 5:30 p.m. local time, the neighbor intercepted Marriam, and she told him she had attended the church service. He and Marriam returned to her home and told her mother.
“The mother was very angry with the girl, but since it was Ramadan she did not want to cause a lot of alarm, hence she kept quiet.”
During Ramadan it is common for area Muslims to share food with other families in the evening to break the daily fast, and at 7 pm Hanifa prepared a poisoned meal and sent Marriam to give it to the Christian couple, the source said.
“The daughter didn’t know that her mother had put some poison in the food,” he said. “When the daughter reached Doreen’s home, the three participated in sharing of the food, and immediately [afterward], she left.”
At home, Marriam complained of stomach pain and was soon vomiting and wailing, the source said.
“The mother asked what could be the problem, and why she was delayed in returning home after delivering the food? The girl answered that she shared in eating the food with Doreen’s family, and she was in deep pain. Upon hearing that, Hanifa shouted in a loud voice, “Allah Karim [Generous Allah], I have killed myself.”
Marriam was rushed to a nearby hospital where she died, he said.
After about an hour, Doreen and her husband started suffering stomach pain and diarrhea and made an emergency call to another neighbor.
“When I arrived at the house the two were in bad state, and I took them to a nearby clinic where they were given first aid before they were referred to the main hospital,” said a neighbor, whose name is also being withheld for security reasons.
Doreen died before reaching the hospital, and her husband died the next day at the hospital, the neighbor said.
Local leaders detained and questioned Hanifa, and she confessed to having poisoned the food.
“I never intended to kill my daughter,” says Hanifa. “My plan was to kill the neighbors because of taking my daughter to church during this holy month of Ramadan. Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise] called Firdausi, so I wanted to get that Jannah.”
