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The Federal High Court successful Abuja connected Friday sentenced 2 women arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their engagement successful terrorism-related activities to 40 years successful prison.
The convicted women, Safiya Salihu and Halima Abdullahi, are the parent and sister, respectively, of violent kingpin Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo, who was eliminated by Nigerian information forces connected June 10, 2026, successful a wood adjacent Iluke successful Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Justice Hauwa Joseph Yilwa handed down the sentences aft some women pleaded blameworthy to Counts 2, 4 and 5 of the five-count terrorism-related complaint brought against them by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation.
Both women escaped condemnation connected Counts 1 and 3, which bordered connected receiving N490,300 from Battujo portion being afloat alert it was proceeds of terrorism, arsenic good arsenic receiving sponsorship for a beatified pilgrimage funded with proceeds of terrorism.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Oyedepo Rotimi, SAN, urged the tribunal to onslaught retired some counts but convict them connected the others.
According to Count 2, some women “aided and abetted the activities of Battujo, a known bandit kingpin, and passed accusation done telephone conversations to the said Battujo, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable nether Section 26 of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.”
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