4 Boko Haram members – Shuaibu Abubakar, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Babagana-Umar and Mohammed Ali – were on Tuesday convicted for carrying out multiple bombings and killings in parts of the Federal Capital Territory and Suleja, Niger State, between March and July 2011.
An Abuja Federal High Court, presided by Justice Bilikisu Aliyu, jailed them for life in her judgment in the suit filed by the Federal Government after their arrest in 2011.
The four and two other suspects - Musa Adamu and Umar Ibrahim – were prosecuted under the provisions of section 15(2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act, which prescribes a life sentence for anyone found guilty of committing or attempting to commit an act of terrorism.
The convicts were accused of carrying out bombings at the Independent National Electoral Commission office and the All Christian Fellowship Church, in Suleja, Niger State, in April and July 2011, as well as the killing of 4 policemen at a check-point at Dakwa-Deidei in Bwari Area Council of the FCT in May 2011.
They were also accused of participating in killings at a political rally in Suleja Secondary School in June 2011.
Furthermore, the Federal Government alleged that, between June 4 and July 12, 2011, the suspects had, at various locations in Suleja, Azare in Nasarawa State and the the FCT, engaged in acts of terrorism “by encouraging through training of persons now at large, the use of arms and ammunition, and the preparation, planting and detonation of improvised explosive devices for the purpose of terrorism.”
But the accused persons, on their arraignment in 2011, pleaded not guilty to the 5-count brought against them
However, in the judgment delivered by Justice Aliyu on Tuesday, four out of the six suspects were convicted and jailed for life for being members of the Boko Haram sect.
Furthermore, the Federal Government alleged that, between June 4 and July 12, 2011, the suspects had, at various locations in Suleja, Azare in Nasarawa State and the the FCT, engaged in acts of terrorism “by encouraging through training of persons now at large, the use of arms and ammunition, and the preparation, planting and detonation of improvised explosive devices for the purpose of terrorism.”
But the accused persons, on their arraignment in 2011, pleaded not guilty to the 5-count brought against them
However, in the judgment delivered by Justice Aliyu on Tuesday, four out of the six suspects were convicted and jailed for life for being members of the Boko Haram sect.
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