Maryam Sanda, wife to late Bilyaminu Bello, son of a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Haliru Bello, on Wednesday insisted that she did not Kill her husband as alleged.
The defendant was charged with culpable homicide punishable with death in accordance with section 221 of the Penal Code.She was on April 4 ordered by the court to open her defence in a ruling on a no-case submission filed on her behalf by her counsel, Olusegun Jolaawo, SAN. She stated that in the course of argument, she asked the deceased to divorce her adding that the late Bilyaminu held her neck, which got her choking.
She stated that while trying to hold her, the deceased fell down, she added that, “I thought he was pretending.” The deceased mother and brother, according to her, also asked her to stop crying when they also came to the hospital.