Federal High Court jails 386 terrorists in four days mass trial

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has convicted a full of 386 terrorists, chiefly Boko Haram members, enactment connected proceedings by the national authorities successful the past 4 days.

The convicted terrorists were sentenced to assorted jailhouse presumption ranging from 5 years to beingness imprisonment based connected the gravity of the charges against them and their unfastened Court confessions.

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who confirmed this connected Friday said that a full of 508 defendants were arraigned earlier 10 courts betwixt Tuesday and Friday.

Briefing journalists astatine the decision of the wide trial, Fagbemi said that 8 of the defendants were discharged portion 2 were acquitted from the charges against them.

The Minister of Justice further explained that a batch of 112 suspects whose cases could not beryllium attended to would beryllium arraigned on with others successful the adjacent signifier of the wide proceedings slated for betwixt June 15 and 18, 2026.

He said that the wide proceedings and the imprisonment of the 386 terrorists volition service arsenic a awesome to criminals that Nigeria has nary abstraction for heinous crimes similar terrorism.

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