The Federal Territory High Court on Monday convicted Maryam Sandals of the crime murdering her husband and sentenced her to death by hanging. This was the end of a trial that lasted two years, over the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. This was to many Justice well served, and to others who remember God and
forgiveness only when the wicked is being punished, it was an extreme sentence.
Surprisingly, the base of all that culminated in the murder of Sandals husband by her, and now the death sentence hanging on her neck was a nude picture, possibly a female nude picture she saw on her husband phone. This she made known to the police, in her statement on January 23, 2019.
One could have preferred this remains a mere imagination than a reality, or an episode in a movie. But this is the now reality of Maryam Sanda, and could become the reality of many other people, who might not be wise enough to learn from the horrible experience of Maryam. Sadly, the two families that were once brought together by love and affection has been thrown into a forever nightmare of the murder and the soon execution of their children who had brought them into such togetherness in love and affection, just by the stupidity of Maryam, over nude pictures on her husband's phone.
Mind you, Maryam was a nursing mother, with 3 months pregnancy, when she killed her husband over the picture of a nude woman on his phone. So while standing trial for the murder of her husband, she had the second child. But, like Maryam, there are also men who had also sent their wives to the grave beyond over infidelity or adultery. One can only hope that as Maryam, that law catches up with them to serve justice. Nature abhors adultery as the Bible forbids it, yet no one should kill anyone over adultery. However, in Maryam case, her religion permits the husband to marry up to four wives. And before they came together, she knew this. Let even agree that the husband had no such religious privilege of having many wives.
So, why will any woman kill her husband over another woman? Thereby making herself a widow and her children fatherless? How will she tell her children when they grow up that she killed their father over another woman? Unfortunately these rational questions are what people don't ask themselves when jealousy takes over them. If they could be calm a little, to ask themselves real questions no one will carry jealousy motivated anger over a moment. Humans are naturally jealous, not wanting to share what they cherish; however such joulousy that will push one to any form of evil must be avoided and run away from.
For Maryam, because of anger over nude pictures on her husband's phone, Bello is no more and Maryam is staring at death that is furiously rushing at her. Funny enough, after killing her husband, she was sighted with the Muslim praying beads in the court room and at sentencing her, she was shouting "mummy, mummy, mummy"; but had she explored the praying beads and her mum over her anger on the nude pictures, she would have avoided murdering her husband and the subsequent death sentence on her.
Marriage is sweet, but marital sweetness do not fall on anyone's lap. And there is no single marriage on earth that does not have its troubles, challenges, trials, disappointments, betrayal, etc. They only vary in degree and the time of their occurrence. But the management of these marital problems, with the harmony of the marriage in focus is what brings marital peace and sweetness. The culture and trend of "I can't take that or this in my marriage", inhibits one's ability to think right solution when there is/are problems in marriage.
Every confrontation can be resolved with understanding and right compromises. But when resolution is not possible, the freedom of the walk away option makes it possible to kill any form of confrontation.
So, when you insist you can't take it, simply walk away and keep you life and allow the life of the others be too. No one should kill in the guise of suffering betrayal or disappointment over unreciprocated love.
We also know that every has the devil behind it. But the devil cannot influence any human without his permission.
Whatever we do is a result of what we have always think. So when you think of killing, dealing with, showing him or her who you are, the devil can easily push you to do the bad thought, while God pushes you to do the good thought. So let good and not bad thoughts be in us always, because anyone who kills, also deserve to die. The court of law doesn't forgive, but gives justice. Only God can forgive the crime of murder.
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