The Supreme Court has overridden the pardon granted by President Bola Tinubu to an Abuja-based house wife, Maryam Sanda, who was in 2020 sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, during a domestic dispute. President Tinubu had reduced Sanda’s sentence to 12 years imprisonment on compassionate ground. But in a judgment…
The Presidency on Thursday explained the major reason why Maryam Sanda who was sentenced to death for killing her husband was granted clemency. Sanda, who had spent a total of six years in prison for murder, had her death sentence reduced to 12 years’ imprisonment by the president. The reduction in the death sentence followed…
Maryam Sanda, the lady who was sentenced to death for killing her husband Bilyaminu Bello in 2017, will now walk free. The 37-year-old mother of two had stabbed Bello to death with a broken groundnut bottle in the neck, chest and genitals after accusing him of infidelity on November 9, 2017. She also claimed to…
The biological father of the late Bilyaminu Bello, who was murdered by his wife, Maryam Sanda, in 2017, has commended the pardon of his daughter-in-law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to him, he had been on a quiet quest to secure freedom for Maryam, who had been on death row since her sentencing for…
Family of the late Bilyaminu Bello has condemned the presidential pardon granted to his wife, Maryam Sanda, who was convicted and sentenced to death for his murder. In a statement on Monday, the family described the move as the worst possible injustice any family could be made to go through. It said that the decision…
Maryam Sanda, sentenced to death in 2020 for the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, has received a presidential pardon from Bola Tinubu after spending six years and eight months at the Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre. In a statement released on Saturday by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga,…