The first prosecution witness in
the trial of Maryam Sanda over the alleged murder of her husband, Bilyamin
Bello yesterday gave evidence in court.
The witness revealed that Maryam
Sanda had earlier threatened to cut her husband’s penis.
Ibrahim Mohammed, a businessman
and a friend of the deceased told a High Court in Jabi that Maryam Sanda, who
the police charged with the murder, attempted to stab the deceased multiple
times on the night of November 18, 2017.
While being led in evidence by
the prosecution counsel, James Idachaba, the witness told the court that Maryam
threatened to cut off the manhood of the deceased unless she was divorced that
night.
He said while he was smoking ‘Shisha’
and watching TV with the deceased, Maryam came down to call the deceased and
while they were upstairs, he heard noise from upstairs before Maryam sent
Sadiya (the fourth defendant) to call him.
“When I got there, I saw both
Maryam and Bilyaminu holding each other’s cloth on the neck. I asked what was
happening and pleaded that they stop this.
“Maryam told me to tell Bilyaminu
to divorce her. I told her they should exercise patience and stop fighting. She
said she was not going anywhere until he divorced her,” he said.
The witness said he had to
disengage Maryam’s hands from the deceased’s neck, adding that when he did
this, Maryam picked a bottle by the side of the door and broke it on the wall.
“She came straight to Bilyaminu
to stab him. I held her hands and Bilyaminu went behind her and collected the
broken bottle from her hands and went downstairs. I closed the door and
continued to advise Maryam that they should stop fighting. She said she would
not stop until Bilyaminu divorced her that night; that either he divorced her
or she would cut his private part.
“While pleading with her,
Bilyamin entered the bedroom and Maryam followed him, insisting that he should
divorce her that night but Bilyamin kept silent,” he added.
Muhammed said Maryam thereafter
took one of the containers of scent and broke it on the table and approached
Bilyamin to stab him but the deceased held her hand and collected the container
and they started hitting each other, before Bilyamin pushed her to the bed and
went downstairs but Maryam followed him downstairs.
He said at the sitting room
downstairs, Maryam entered the kitchen and took a knife, which he said he
collected from her hand, adding that she later took up a table knife, which he
also collected from her hands.
“She attempted picking the knife
for about three or four times,” he added.
He said after leaving the house
around 1a.m of November 19, 2017 “Abbah Bello (a brother to the deceased)
called me about 1 hour later that I should come to Maitama Hospital because
Bilyaminu was dead. I went there and met Bilyaminu lying on a bed in front of
the hospital. There was a hole in his chest near the heart, bite on his
stomach. There was a cut on his thigh and there was a sign of stitching on
him,” he said.
He said both families of the
couple were at the hospital, adding that they left from there to the police
station after the corpse was taken to the mortuary.
He added that while going to the
station, Maryam’s mother and brother (Maimuna Aliyu and Aliyu Sanda) with a policeman
in their car diverted to the couple’s house.
He added that Usman Aliyu told
him that they should follow them to the house to see what was happening there,
adding that Maimuna and Aliyu went upstairs, while the policeman was in front
of the car.
“Usman Aliyu and I entered the
sitting room and observed that everything was normal as we left it. When we
looked at where Bilyaminu prayed, there was a pair of slippers and praying mat.
On a closer look, we discovered that the window blind had come down.”
Under cross-examination by
counsels for the defendants: Joseph Daudu (SAN); Rotimi Ogunesan (SAN); A .T.
Kehinde (SAN) and Olusegun Jolaawo, the witness told the court that he left the
deceased performing ablution when he was leaving his house that night.
He declared that he did not have
any knowledge of medicine and did not know the cause of Bilyaminu’s death,
saying that the deceased did not sustain any injuries when he collected the
broken bottle from his wife.
Asked if Maryam threatened to
kill the deceased all through the fights, the witness said she did not state
so, adding, however, that, “Maryam said she would cut his private part.”
The trial judge, Justice Yusuf
Halilu, upon the conclusion of the evidence of the witness and based on
consensus of parties adjourned the case to May 15 and 16 for continuation of
hearing.
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