Negotiating with terrorists attracts 20-year jail term – Falana warns FG, govs

Human rights advocate, Femi Falana, has warned national and authorities governments against negotiating with and rewarding terrorists.

According to Falana, the signifier is illegal.

He stated this portion delivering the keynote code astatine the Amnesty International Second Annual General Meeting successful Abuja connected June 13, 2026.

Falana claimed it is nationalist cognition officials of the Federal Government and immoderate State Governments person been holding meetings and negotiating with terrorists and bandits, which has led to thousands of ‘repentant’ criminals being forgiven and fixed currency gifts of undisclosed sums of money.

Asserting that the “satanic Boko Haram sect and akin bodies person been proscribed” nether the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, Falana insisted that “their members and allies shall beryllium prosecuted and not pampered and forgiven by the Nigerian State.”

Highlighting the ineligible consequences, helium quoted Section 22 of the Act, stating: “A idiosyncratic who knowingly—(a) arranges, manages, assists successful arranging oregon managing, participates successful a gathering oregon an activity, which successful his cognition is acrophobic oregon connected with an enactment of coercion oregon violent group, (b) collects, oregon provides logistics, equipment, information, articles oregon facilities for a gathering oregon an activity, which successful his cognition is acrophobic oregon connected with an enactment of coercion oregon violent group, oregon (c) atten...