Abuja court sentences Al-Qaeda linked terrorists to life imprisonment

Abubakar Abba, the commandant of Ansaru, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated violent group, prosecuted for alleged coercion by the Department of the State Service, DSS, has been sentenced to beingness imprisonment by the  Abuja Federal High Court.

Abba, aka Abu Bara, bagged the beingness jailhouse on his co-accused, Mahmud Usman aka Isah Adam/Mahmud on Monday when they pleaded blameworthy to the 32-count coercion complaint brought against them by the DSS connected behalf of the Federal Government.

Justice Emeka Nwite handed down the jailhouse word portion delivering judgement successful the case.

The 2 convicts were sentenced to beingness imprisonment successful counts 30 and 31 portion they were sentenced to 20 years successful the remainder of the charges.

The justice ordered that the jailhouse word connected the different counts should commence from the day of their arrest.

The convicts were arrested successful abstracted operations betwixt May and July 2025 by the DSS.

‎They were slammed with a 32-count coercion charge, including coercion and coercion financing, kidnapping for ransom, amerciable mining, backing terrorism, fabricating Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, among different charges.

They were accused of coordinating sleeper cells, attacks, and ties to groups successful the Sahel/Maghreb.

‎On arraignment, Usman had pleaded blameworthy to one-count of amerciable mining for funding...