There was drama in an FCT High Court in Maitama on Monday as the presiding judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, sentenced Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.
Bello, son of former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Alhaji Bello Halliru Muhammed, was stabbed to death on November 19, 2017.
Sanda was arrested and charged with culpable homicide alongside her mother, former Managing Director of Aso Savings, Hajia Maimuna Aliyu, and their home help, Sadiya Aminu.
Maimuna was charged for assisting Sanda to conceal the evidence by cleaning the blood of the deceased from the scene of the crime.
Earlier on Monday, the judge stood down the matter for five minutes following the drama that ensued after the conviction was passed. Sanda had fled the dock immediately the judge convicted her before court officials and prisons officials dragged her back.
Justice Halilu was therefore forced to rise after several women starting wailing in the court room, while Sanda herself was wailing and shouting “Inna lilahi Inna roji hun”, translated as ”We belong to Allah and to Him shall we return’.
During sentencing, the judge dismissed Ms Sanda’s statement that her husband fell on a broken Shisha pot during a fight on the ill-fated day as a “smokescreen to deceive the court”.
The judge said, “Convict clearly deserve to die. I therefore sentence Sanda to death by hanging.”
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