President Bola Tinubu has pardoned Maryam Sanda, the woman sentenced to death for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.
On Thursday, Tinubu exercised his constitutional prerogative of mercy, with the backing of the Council of State, topardon 175 persons, including Vatsa and nationalist Herbert Macaulay.
Sanda, aged 37, sentenced on January 27, 2020, was sentenced to death for culpable homicide and had spent six years and eight months at Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre.
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Her family, according to presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga, had pleaded for her release in the best interest of her two children.
“The plea was also anchored on her good conduct in jail, her remorse, and her embracement of a new lifestyle, demonstrating her commitment to being a model prisoner,” said Onanuga.
The case dates back to November 19, 2017, when Sanda stabbed her husband, the son of former Peoples Democratic Party national chairman, Haliru Bello, to death.
In January 2020, Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court found Sanda guilty of murder and sentenced her to death by hanging. The judge determined that Ms Sanda stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife with clear intent to kill.
Justice Halilu reached his verdict by relying on the compelling circumstantial evidence and testimonies of the six witnesses called by the police, the relatives of the convict who cleaned up the scene of the murder, a post-mortem examination on the deceased’s corpse, and the contradictory statements of the convict.
The judge also relied on the “Doctrine of the Last Scene”, which stipulates that the last person at a crime scene bears full responsibility.
“It serves to buttress the finding that the defendant was the last to be seen with the deceased and therefore has full responsibility for what caused his death,” Justice Halilu had said in his ruling.
The conviction was upheldwhen Sanda appealed to the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja in December 2020.
Justice Steven Adah ruled that it lacked merit. Sanda had claimed she was sentenced based on “circumstantial evidence”, arguing there were no confessional statements, murder weapon or at least two witnesses to back the allegation that she killed Bilyaminu.