Supreme Court Voids Tinubu’s Pardon For Maryam Sanda

MaTaZ ArIsInG
Dallas, Texas

…Asserts That President Cannot Exercise Executive Power Over Culpable Homicide Cases

 The Supreme Court of Nigeria has writ­ten off Presidential pardon on Maryam Sanda as granted by Presi­dent Bola Tinubu recently.

In a split decision of four-to-one, on Friday, De­cember 12, the Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence handed Sanda by the Court of Appeal, Abuja which upheld the decision of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). She would now face death by hanging.

In a lead judgement, Jus­tice Moore Adumein held that it was wrong for the President to seek to exercise executive power of pardon over a case of culpable ho­micide, in respect of which an appeal was pending.

The Supreme Court in­sisted that the prosecution had proved the case be­yond reasonable doubt as required, adding that the Court of Appeal was right to have affirmed the judge­ment of the trial court.

The Apex Court looked at all the issues raised in the appeal she filed against her and dismissed the appeal for being without merit.

Maryam Sanda, a house­wife in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, was in 2020, sentenced to death by hanging for killing her husband, Bilyaminu Bello, during a domestic dispute at their Abuja res­idence.

She had since spent more than six years in custody at the Suleja Correctional Centre before President Tinubu, exercising execu­tive clemency, commuted her sentence to 12 years’ imprisonment on compas­sionate grounds.

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