Court sentences three, including foreigner to death by hanging over terrorism

A High Court sitting successful Sokoto State has sentenced 3 men, including a overseas national, to decease by hanging.

The condemnation followed their condemnation connected charges bordering connected coercion and arms proliferation.

The convicts, Yusuf Muhammad (alias Sallau), a Nigerien; Jabbi Alhaji Yalle; and Kabiru Muhammad, were said to person been arrested connected 13th June, 2025.

They were apprehended by the Department of State Services, DSS, Counter Terrorism Unit successful transportation with cross-border transgression activities bordering connected arms trafficking and terrorism.

The case, marked SS/45c/2026, was presided implicit by Justice Muhammad Nuraddeen Bello of High Court No. 23, Sokoto.

Justice Bello, portion delivering the judgment

found each 3 defendants blameworthy arsenic charged and sentenced them to decease by hanging.

The tribunal besides ordered the forfeiture of each monetary exhibits recovered from the convicts to the Federal Government.

“The condemnation is the latest successful a bid of palmy prosecutions by the DSS successful its sustained operations against coercion and organised cross-border transgression networks crossed Nigeria,” Justice Bello said.

Court sentences three, including foreigner to decease by hanging implicit terrorism