A self confessed Boko Haram member, Abubakar Goni, has been sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Goni of Daira village in Gubi Local Government Area of Yobe State, was jailed by Justice Binta Nyako on Friday following his admission that he knowingly joined the proscribed terrorist group greater than 15 years in the past.
He was placed on trial by the Federal Government on a 5- rely cost bordering on membership of Boko Haram group, receiving coaching on dealing with of AK-47 assault rifle, launching terror assaults in opposition to civilians and looting of different individuals’s meals to feed Boko Haram members.
He was additionally accused of launching assaults in opposition to some communities in Niger Republic earlier than the Department of State Services, DSS, caught up with him in 2016.
When the costs had been learn to him on Friday, the convict admitted being a member of the Boko Haram however denied different allegations.
Following the confession, Justice Nyako invoked Section 16(1) of the Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, 2013, to impose the 30 years jail time period on him.
Earlier, his lawyer, (*30*) Hassan, had pleaded with the decide to mood justice with mercy by imposing the minimal sentence on his consumer for admitting the offence on his personal volition and with out losing the time of the courtroom.
Based on the plea, and on account of him being a primary time offender, Justice Nyako ordered that the 30 12 months jail time period ought to begin from 2016, when he was apprehended by the DSS and clamped into detention.
The hudge additionally ordered that the Federal Ministry of Interior ought to decide the jail the place the convict is to serve the jail time period.
