Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted and sentenced a 55-year-old farmer in Borno State, Ali Mustapha, to 15 years’ imprisonment for concealing information on the activities of the Boko Haram sect in his Katara village.
The farmer who had been in custody since 2013 was one of the terrorism suspects arraigned on Monday by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation.
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After the suspect pleaded guilty to the terrorism-related charge preferred against him by the federal government, the trial judge, Justice Nyako, accordingly convicted and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, without option of fine.
The judge said she took judicial notice of the plea of the convict that there were no government officials or security agencies to report to – as he lives in an obscure and remote village in Borno State.
Justice Nyako ordered that the 15-year jail term should commence from 2013, when the convict was arrested and kept in detention.
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