HUSBAND KILLER MARYAM SANDA CONVICTED OF MURDER SET TO DIE BY HANGING!

It has taken 2 plus years for this conviction to finally come and  finally according to the law court, husband killer Maryam Sanda has been found guilty of culpable homicide and for that, the court has ruled that she also must pay the supreme price too, which is death by hanging!

What a sad sad tale and sad end it is, for something that could have been avoided, if only restraint could have been employed and embraced.

Maybe now the family of her late murdered husband would finally find closure. But for her own family, friends and admirers, it's pain and anguish as they would see their daughter, sister, cousin, niece, grandchild and friend lose her life, for killing the former love of her life, Bilyaminu.

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Monday convicted and sentenced Maryam Sanda to death by hanging for the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Yusuf Halilu, held that there was circumstantial evidence coupled with her testimony and statement to the police that she “fatally” stabbed her husband to death in Abuja on November 19, 2017.

The judge ordered that she should be remanded in Suleja prison till she would have  exhausted all her right of appeal.

Maryam Sanda, a mother of two, her mom and her other relatives broke down in tears immediately the judge pronounced her guilt.

Maryam's mother who had occupied a back seat immediately ran out of the court as she wept profusely on hearing the judgment. Maryam herself in shock, while in tears rushed out of the courtroom too, which was just next to the dock, but the judge ordered that she should be brought back to the courtroom immediately.

In the middle of the ensuing confusion, the defense lawyer attempted to make a plea for allocutus (plea for mercy)  but the judge said he needed to rise for the courtroom to be restored to normalcy.

The judge then said he would return to deliver the sentence after some minutes.

When the judge eventually returned from the break, he said the offense for which Maryam was convicted being one based on Section 221 of the Penal Code, there would be no room for allocutus.

“It has been said that thou shall not kill. Whoever kills in cold blood shall die in cold blood,” the judge said.

“Maryam Sanda should reap what she has sown,” he said, adding, “it is blood for blood”.

RESPITE FOR ONTARIO OIL BOSS WALTER WAGBATSOMA AS NIGERIAN COURT STRIKES OUT CASE AGAINST HIM

Walter Wagbatsoma

Respite seem to have come the way of billionaire oil and gas dude Walter WAGBATSOMA, who until his misfortune was one of the big boys in Nigeria and in the sector. Walter is the jailed boss of Ontario Oil Ltd, one of Nigeria's top players in the oil and gas sector who was sent to jail a few weeks back in London, UK for sundry issues.

He had fallen on the wrong side of the law in Europe, after leaving Nigeria and was arrested in Germany and had to face prosecution in the United Kingdom, with loads of others at the end of which he was sentenced to 3 and half years in prison, just like many of his co-business people in the UK.

Though he had claimed innocence in the case used to jail him in the UK, he was still convicted and sentenced to jail.

According to his defence then, he had obtained hard currency in multiple transactions to the tune of £400,000 from a Nigerian money changer based in Dubai, the UAE in exchange for Naira, apparently the Pounds he was given was part of the proceeds from the NHS Trust fund fraud perpetrated by the money changer and co-conspirators. So he was convicted and sentenced with others for stealing £12 million Pounds from the NHS. He is planning to appeal his conviction and sentence soon.

So just yesterday in Nigeria, a court of competent jurisdiction, in fact 2 courts, the Appeal and the Supreme Court at that which had sat to decide his culpability in the cases before them, struck out the case, discharging and acquiting him and others with him.

The High Court last year in the case presided over by Justice Lateefa Okunnu had found Walter Wagbatsoma, the Executive Vice Chairman of Ontario Oil, Adaoha Ugo-Ndaji and Company guilty of Subsidy fraud to the tune of ₦1.9 billion so apart from being sentenced, they were ordered to repay the FG money to the tune of ₦754 million Naira.

But yesterday, Friday, February 9, 2018 the Court of Appeal in Lagos discharged and acquitted Walter, Adaoha who was alealre serving the sentence and Ontario in the fraud suit Instituted by the EFCC. Not yet done, the highest court in the land, The Supreme Court in a seperate ruling tagged the "NO SUBMISSION CASE" appeal, set aside the rulings of the High Court, saying that Walter Wagbatsoma, and the executives of Ontario and the Company herself didn't get a fair trial which led to their convictions and sentencing.

So with this acquital, there is obviously a silver lining in the dark clouds that had surrounded the man many had always referred to as a perfect gentleman and one with a very large heart, who could do anything or go to any length for his friends. Many are hoping that with the discharge and acquital in Nigeria, which had already settled a case of "double jeopardy" which was already looming before, his appeal in London whenever it comes up would also vindicate him and that if all things go well he might soon be enjoying once again the embrace of his love ones and friends. 

WHAT A VICTORY FOR JAMES ONANEFE IBORI AS HE WINS UK CASE AND GETS A STAGGERING £1

What a victory for the convicted felon and former Governor of Delta State, the warlord Chief James Onanefe Ibori, who recently too the British Secretary of State to court for unlawful detention and who won the case.

For that win the "highly respected politician" and kingmaker, who took to his heels from Nigeria years back to escape prosecution won a staggering £1 Pound in damages. He had escaped to Dubai the UAE, where he had an extraordinary amount of investments​, but was surprisingly extradited later to the UK ,where he was convicted and jailed for fraud. Curiously he had worked in the same UK years before as a store cashier.

Though the worth of victory monetarily wasn't extraordinary, the important aspect of the victory at least was that, it showed that he wasn't deported from the Queen's land, but he was rather "allowed", to leave voluntarily on his own volition. The unlawful detention victory came about because he was detained for a day and some hours more, after his initial release from prison after finishing his term for fraud, which was in excess of £50 million pounds.

Now that he has at least won this colossal and monumental victory, especially since returning to Nigeria, that might actually clear the way for him to contest for any elective post anytime he wants. Chief IBORII has an incontestable number of followers, ready at any time to lead him to victory.

Congratulations to the great man of the people, for this very important victory. May more Victory like this come subsequently.