THE INJUSTICE AGAINST MARYAM SANDA SENTENCE
Before you crucified me, permit me to bare my mind on the recent sentence to death of Maryam Sanda who was convicted some weeks ago for murdering her husband. The law, they say, is no respected of person, and so it should be. Granted, no one should kill another man for whatever reason. Even in self defense, it has to be proven beyond any reasonable doubt, before any death can be justifiable, not even when there is probability that Sanda's husband did not commit the offence for which life was sniffed out of him. To all intent and purposes, on the surface, his killing was needless, coldless and heartless in the face of morality and law. And that is all about it. Let me say here that Sanda sentence to death was needless too and may amount to injustice. While she has had her days in court as any reasonable lawyer should preach and demand, the truth is, her sentence to death may amount to injustice in the long run if closely looked into. Thank God, she has appealed the case, and I do