An FCT High Court, Maitama, on Wednesday fixed March 20 for the
adoption of final written addresses in the no-case submission filed by
Maryam Sanda who was charged for allegedly killing her husband,
Bilyaminu Bello through multiple stabbing in 2017.
Maryam was charged alongside Maimuna Aliyu, Maryam’s mother; Aliyu
Sanda, her brother; and Sadiya Aminu, her housemaid, with conspiracy
in the murder case.
They all pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The judge, Justice Yusuf Halilu, fixed the date, following the
inability of Aliyu’s counsel, Hussein Musa, to serve court processes
on the prosecution counsel on time.
The prosecutor, Fidelis Ogbobe, told the court that he was yet to
study and reply to the processes on the no -case submission served on
him because he received it late.
Earlier, the counsel for Sanda, Olusegun Jolaawo, told the court that
he served the prosecution his processes on a no-case-submission since
February 1.
The prosecution had closed its case on January 22 after calling six witnesses.
The witness, Inspector Josephine Onyendo, who testified as the sixth
prosecution witness (PW6), told the court that Sanda told the police
that the fight between her and the deceased that allegedly led to his
death was caused by a nude picture of a lady she found on his phone.
Onyendo, who said that she was detailed to investigate the case, said:
“On getting to the house, we went inside where we saw a curtain on the
ground at upstairs, a praying mat on the floor and there was water on
the floor,”
She said after returning to the office, Sanda was asked to make her
statement and that according to the statement she said on November 18,
2017, a woman sent nude pictures to her husband’s phone that later
resulted to fight between both of them.
The witness told the court that Sanda further stated in the statement
that during the fight a Shisha pot got broken while they were fighting
with the water inside spilling on the ground which made her husband
fell down on the broken bottle and got injured.
She said Sanda concluded that she took her husband to the general
hospital at Maitama, where he was confirmed dead, saying by the time
the case was transferred to the homicide section, the deceased had
been buried according to Islamic rites.
