The Federal Government will on Monday arraign five suspected terrorists linked to the notorious terrorist kingpin, Bello Turji, at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The suspects will be arraigned by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, before Justice Emeka Nwite.
They were to be arraigned on Friday but their plea could not be taken due to lack of a lawyer to appear for them. Counsel for the AGF, David Kaswe, prayed for a short adjournment to enable them engage a counsel of their choice and Justice Nwite fixed Monday for their arraignment. The federal government, through the office of the AGF, had filed the 11-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/633/2024 against the eight defendants, three of whom are at large. In the charge filed on December 16 by M.B.
The offence is said to be contrary to Section 17 of the Terrorism, Prevention, Amendment Act 2013 and punishable under the same section of the Act. In count four, Kamarawa, Muhammad, still at large and Lawal, also at large, sometime in 2021 in Sokoto State, allegedly aided and abetted the commission of acts of terrorism by acquiring a military gun truck from Libya and supplying same to a terrorist, Kachalla Halilu, at a cost of approximately N28.5 million .
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