Nigeria’s federal capital territory (FCT) police command says it is difficult to remand Maryam Sanda who allegedly murdered her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, son of a former chairman of PDP, TheCable reports.
Sanda reportedly stabbed the victim to death as a result of suspicion that he was cheating on her. The suspect has been arraigned before an FCT high court on a two-count charge. .
In the charge sheet seen by TheCable, Sanda was accused of committing an offence punishable with death.
“That you Mariam Sanda Female, Adult of N0 4 Pakail Close, Wuse 2 Abuja, on or about the 19/11/2017 at about 0350 hours at Pakail Close, Wuse zone 2, Abuja within the Abuja Judicial Division, did commit the offence of culpable homicide punishable with death.
In that you caused the death of one Bilyaminu Bello Halliru, male of N0 4 Pakail close, Wuse zone 2, Abuja by stabbing him on the chest with broken bottle which eventually led to his death, you thereby committed an offence punishable under section 221 of the Penal Code Law,” the sheet read.
“That you Mariam Sanda Female, Adult of N0 4 Pakail Close, Wuse 2 Abuja, on or about the at 19/11/2017 at about 0350 hours at Pakail Close, Wuse zone 2, Abuja within the Abuja Judicial Division, did commit the offence of causing grievous hurt. .
In that you stabbed one Bilyaminu Bello Halliru, male of N0 4 Pakail close, Wuse zone 2, Abuja by stabbing him on the neck with broken bottle thereby endangering his life, you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 240 (g) and punishable under section 247 of the Penal Code Law.”
Anjuguri Manzah, police public relations officer in FCT, said though the command had secured an order to detain the suspect for two weeks, it will not be easy because she has a six-month-old baby.
Manzah said:
“It should also be noted that this present charge is as a result of preliminary findings. At the end of the investigation, additional findings will determine whether the current charge will be amended,” he said.
The Cable
First of all, I can’t make sense of how Nigerians use the English language. What does the prosecutor mean by she did XYZ to “one Bilyaminu Bello Halliru”? Is the authenticity of the deceased questionable or he was a living known human being who was married to his alleged murderer? Phrasing the criminal charge in this weak sentence casts a doubt as to the crime because it suggests that Bilyaminu Bello Halliru may not have existed.
Second of all, her having a “six-month-old baby” should never be a reason not to lock her up. That she calculatedly killed the father of this baby makes her a danger to that baby and makes it mandatory that she be locked away, if for nothing else, just to protect the baby. What this animal-woman did is callous, heinous, devilish, and even warrants her summary beheading. She suspected that her husband was cheating and she stabbed him with a broken bottle without any provocation or argument. She likely allowed him to bleed to death before dropping him off at the hospital.
The insensitivity and stupidity with which the prosecution is handling this case are some of the reasons for which Nigerians take laws into their hands when they apprehend suspects. I do not encourage taking the laws into one’s hands but Nigerians must shame their law enforcement/prosecution personnel for the type of behavior being displayed here. If Nigerians don’t get on the back of the prosecution, this cold-hearted murderer will walk, and probably murder another guy next year for cheating suspicion.
I am pissed off reading this cockamamie excuses; she should be locked up right now if she has not already been locked up. As a matter of fact, she should be locked up to protect her from the wrath of the deceased family, who might take the law into their hands for fear that the prosecution are accepting bribe to sabotage the case– my family witnessed a calculated sabotaging of a murder case, by police and prosecutors a few years ago, when a policeman was hired by organized criminal honchos to murder my baby brother.
What do you mean…”she has a six-month old baby?” What the heck does that have anything to do with breaking the law of committing murder? If you want to take her maternity situation into consideration, very humane by the way, then, make other arrangements to either put her on house arrest so she can be closer and take care of her baby, or get a foster care-taker for the baby, or make her a separate cell. Don’t tell us that it is difficult to arrest her because of that flimsy excuse. When you make excuses for her, what about another person? Nigerians should grow up with law enforcement!! My gosh, what kind of a country are we running?
Cash Ezimako
I had written something similar before reading your position. The ideal position of the law, backed up by psychologists and psychiatrists, is that a woman who would so calculatedly murder her spouse, in absence of self defense, is always a danger to the murdered spouse’s offspring, especial one as young as 6 months old. This woman is so sadistic that she killed a person she claimed to love over something flimsy (flimsy because she could have just left the marriage), so if she felt that she would get the death penalty, she would be cold enough to not leave the child behind — she would murder the baby before being executed. For this reason, she is a danger to that baby right now and it should have long been removed from her custody.
The prosecutors are adding salt to an open injury with their weird excuse for letting a suspected murderer walk around unrestrained. What if she kills another person while not locked up?
Listen to yourself @Nebukadineze Adiele…
You are literally “foaming at the mouth”….
You most probably do not have a grasp of facts surrounding the case. You have definitely not investigated any particulars about the accused person’s status. Yet you start off by criticizing the language of the prosecutor…. you then jump to the conclusion (how you reached that conclusion is beyond me..) that the prosecutor may have “deliberately framed the charge weakly” in order…perhaps… to weaken the case against the accused… You then push for her to be “locked up”… (what happened to protective custody?) while showing no empathy whatsoever for the six month old baby that was mentioned in the report as being the reason why it is hard to “detain” the accused…. You do not stop there but go on a rabble-rousing tirade designed to rubbish whatever actions have so far been taken by the prosecution authorities and this despite not knowing what are those actions….
Na wah oo..!!
What happened to “presumed innocent until proven guilty”..? Or does that apply only to others and not to us…?
You criticize someone’s language….! Did you take a moment to review yours?
The black man’s inability to establish and respect due process is one of the major reasons they are still so backward and primordial.
If you point one finger at someone, no forget that at least three are pointing back at you.
Na so I see am oo..