The trial of Maryam Sanda, who was granted bail based on medical reports which indicated that she is pregnant and ill is still ongoing, and a first prosecution witness Ibrahim Mohammed , a businessman and a friend of Bilyamin Bello , who was killed by his wife, Maryam Sanda , told a High Court in Jabi that she had earlier threatened to cut her husband’s penis.
According to Ibrahim Mohammed, he was smoking ‘Shisha’ and watching TV with the deceased, when Maryam came down to call the deceased. While they were upstairs, he heard noise from upstairs before Maryam sent Sadiya (the fourth defendant) to call him.
Muhammed said Maryam Sanda 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.
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.
