Boko Haram food supplier, Hamatu Modu jailed 40 years in Abuja

Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a large nutrient supplier to the Boko Haram terrorists successful Borno State, Hamatu Modu to 40 years imprisonment for his engagement successful coercion activities.

Modu, who confessed successful the unfastened tribunal to supplying nutrient items and accusation to terrorists, was enactment connected proceedings by the national authorities done the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.

He was slammed with 4- number charges and instantly pleaded blameworthy to them.

The Director of the Public Prosecution of the Federation, DPPF, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, led the prosecution.

In his judgment, Justice Nyako sentenced him to 10 years connected each of the number but owed to the plea of the defence counsel, the justice ordered that the 40 years imprisonment should tally concurrently, giving the convict accidental to walk lone 10 years.

In different development, Isah Ali, different nutrient supplier besides successful Borno, was jailed 10 years by Justice Nyako.

His jailhouse word will, however, commencement 3 years agone erstwhile helium was arrested and clamped into detention.

The convict confessed to committing the offence arsenic charged.

Justice Nyako ordered that the convicts beryllium made to acquisition rehabilitation and radicalization astatine the extremity of their work of the jailhouse terms.

The Federal Ministry of Interior was ordered to find wherever the 2 men volition service their jailhouse terms.<...