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Maryam Sanda: A Domestic Appendage of Accidental Discharge

By Ajogwu Jerry Ochada It is a crime committed against humanity to kill what you cannot create. There is an exception to the hunt and killing of wild animals however the killing of fast extinct animals is also a crime committed against humanity. Adopting Africa as a case study, gruesome killings and maltreatments directed at fellow humans is assessed as inhumanity of man to man; the Trans Saharan and Transatlantic slave trade era is not vindicated of these heinous crimes. Narrowed to the subject matter of this discourse, domestic violence is not a recent trend. It is worthy of note that the date of Sanda's legal conviction climaxed with a housewife residing in Katsina State stabbing her husband to death. This is an expository attestation buttressing obvious aberration that domestic violence is fast becoming an inimical way of life in Saharan Africa and beyond. There is no justification accrued to the killing of fellow humans but it is advisory to assess traceable anteced