Mayam Sanda has been sentenced to death by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital, for killing her husband,
A special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on new media, Bashir Ahmad, has described the incidents as devastating and traumatic.
The presidential aide made this known on his Twitter page on Monday, January 27, stressing that only Allah could strengthen the couple’s families.
In his tweet, Ahmad said it would be sad for Maryam Sanda’s daughter to know while growing up that her mother killed her father and that the court in return sentenced her to death.
I feel so sorry and sad for Maryam Sanda’s daughter, growing up to understand such devastating incidences will not going to be easy. May Allah give her the strength and be with her. Thoughts and prayers have been with Bilyaminu and Maryam’s families. May Allah comfort them.
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) January 27, 2020
He stated that it might not be easy for the innocent girl to cope with such traumatic incidences, adding that it is only Allah could give her strength to bear the burden and agony of losing both parents in such circumstances.
Ahmad further explained that thoughts and prayers have been with Bilyaminu and Maryam’s families since the incident happened. He prayed Almighty Allah to be with both families and Sanda’s daughter.
“I feel so sorry and sad for Maryam Sanda’s daughter, growing up to understand such devastating incidences will not going to be easy. May Allah give her the strength and be with her. Thoughts and prayers have been with Bilyaminu and Maryam’s families. May Allah comfort them,” he said.
Earlier, The Herald reported that Justice Yusuf Halilu of an FCT High Court on Monday sentenced Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for killing her husband.
The court convicted Sanda for the killing of Bilyaminu Bello, the son of former PDP National Chairman, Haliru Bello, in Abuja on November 19, 2017.
The judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt that the convict stabbed her husband and tried to conceal her action by claiming he fell on a broken bottle.
“It has been said that thou shall not kill. Whoever kills in cold blood shall die in cold blood,” the judge said while reading his judgement.