"For decades he stayed invisible only to resurface today" Father of Maryam Sanda's late husband called out for accepting son's k!ller's pardon

People claiming to be relatives of the late Bilyaminu Bello, whose wife/k!ller Maryam Sanda was recently  granted a presidential pardon, have slammed the father of the deceased for approving the pardon. 

Recall that Alhaji Ahmed Bello Isa granted a press conference during which he said he accepted Sanda’s pardon. He added that he had written to beg for her pardon because her children need her. 

However, journalist Mahmud Jega has now claimed that Bello Isa was not a present father to Bilyaminu Bello, which is why he can easily forgive his k!ller. 

According to Jega, Bello Isa is Bilyaminu Bello’s biological father but did not raise him. 

Jega wrote: "While the late murd£r victim Bilyaminu Bello’s family members were vigorously protesting the pardon granted to the wife who murd£red him in cold blood, a man claiming to be his biological father was hauled before pressmen in Abuja by Maryam Sanda’s parents, and he eagerly supported the controversial pardon. He said he wants her to be able to bring up his grandchildren. 

"Alhaji Ahmed Bello Isa, who sat beside Maryam Sanda’s father Alhaji Garba Sanda at the Abuja press conference, is a retired storekeeper in the old Sokoto State. He met and married Bilyaminu’s mother at Women Teachers College, Bodinga in 1980, where she was a student and he was the storekeeper. Bilyaminu was his mother’s first child. She went to her parents’ house to give birth to him in 1981, as is the tradition in Hausaland. She died not long afterwards. 

"Ahmed Isa went and condoled with the maternal family, but never turned up again since then. Bilyaminu was then brought up, first by his grandmother and then by his uncle, former Communications and Defence Minister and former PDP National Chairman Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed. That’s how he prospered in Abuja circles, met and married Maryam from her high-flying family. Before tragedy struck in 2017. 

"Malam Ahmed Isa never appeared in Bilyaminu’s life since then. He did not attend either of Bilyaminu’s two marriages and he never saw the kids from the marriage. 

"Today [Tuesday], looking gaunt and poverty-stricken, he suddenly surfaced at a press conference and claimed that he appealed to President Tinubu to pardon his so-called daughter-in-law. He was appearing for the first time, 44 years since Bilyaminu’s birth and 8 years since his de@th. He never turned up during the protracted court cases that went up to Supreme Court. 

"His sudden appearance now and so-called forgiveness attests to the wealth, social power and reputed reckless behavior of Maryam’s parents and the continued effort to sweep her atrocious crime under the carpet. Between this 'father' and the maternal family members who are protesting the controversial pardon of their relative’s k!ller, who really loved Bilyaminu?" 

Another person claiming to be a relative of the deceased took to Facebook to claim that Bilyaminu Bello’s father did not attend any of Bello’s  weddings both times he got married. He also claimed that he did not attend his burial or the court cases following his de@th. They claimed he stayed invisible for decades and only resurfaced to declare support for Sanda’s  release. 

The "relatives" added that Bello Isa is in no position to speak speak the family regarding the affairs of the late Bilyaminu Bello. 

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