Three Boko Haram members were last week sentenced to 25 years
imprisonment each in Lagos. Both the sentencing and the trial were
conducted in secret to protect witnesses in the case.
Ali Mohammed,
Adamu Karumi, and Ibrahim Usman were convicted by Justice Ibrahim Buba
based on an 18-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit terrorism,
illegal possession of firearms, and being members of a proscribed
organisation.
The quiet trial and sentencing of the three Boko Haram members, who were arrested in Lagos in March, was a laudable departure from the much publicised cases in Abuja, which occasionally descends into a distractive ding-dong in the arena of politics.
What the Lagos convictions seem to show is that to achieve concrete results, the authorities must find a way to avoid unnecessary media blitz around the trial of terror suspects and other high profile cases.
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