Ade Adesomoju, Abuja
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Jabi, Abuja on Wednesday struck out a fresh bail application filed by Maryam Sanda, who is being prosecuted for allegedly stabbing her husband, Bilyamin Bello, to death on November 19, 2017.
Justice Yusuf Halilu had earlier in a ruling delivered on December 14, 2017, granted three other co-defendants bail, but declined her plea for bail and ordered her to be remanded in Suleja prisons.
Justice Halilu on Wednesday rejected Sanda’s second bail application shortly after taking further arguments from the prosecution and defence lawyers, in addition to the submissions they earlier made on the fresh bail application on Monday.
The judge ruled that the application filed by Sanda constituted an abuse of court process because she failed to withdraw her notice of appeal challenging the December 14, 2017 ruling declining her bail.
Sanda, a nursing mother, had through her lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), anchored her fresh bail application, filed on January 24, 2018, on the fact that she had recently discovered that she was three months pregnant.
She appeared in court with her face covered.
She held her baby of less-than-a-year-old and was accompanied into the courtroom by prison officials and relatives.
Sanda is being prosecuted alongside her mother, Maimuna Aliyu; brother, Aliyu Sanda; and their maid, Sadiya Aminu.
She is accused of causing the death of her husband, Bilyamin Bello, who was said to be a son of a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Haliru Bello, “by stabbing him in the chest and other parts of the body with a knife and other dangerous weapons, which eventually led to his death.”
She allegedly stabbed the deceased at their residence at 4, Pakali Close, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, on November 19, 2017, “with the knowledge that his death would be the probable and not only the likely consequence of your act.”
The three others were in the second count, specifically accused of causing the “evidence of the offence to disappear” by “cleaning the blood from the scene of crime with the intention of screening one Maryam Sanda from legal punishment.”
The trio’s offence was said to be punishable under Section 167 of the Penal Code Act.
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