The Federal High Court sitting
in Lagos has sentenced three members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect to jail.
Justice Ibrahim Buba, who
gave a secret judgment in the case, sentenced each of the convicts to
twenty-five years in jail, after finding them guilty of terrorism charges.
The fourth accused, who
was charged for funding terrorism, was however discharged and acquitted by the
court on the basis that the Federal Government was not able to satisfactorily
prove the allegation against him.
The trial was conducted in
secret pursuant to an application by the prosecuting authority, the Lagos State
Government, that there was need to protect the witnesses in the case.
Initially, seventeen
suspects were charged to court but were later reduced to four following the
withdrawal of the case against them.
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