Five Nigerian police officers who were accused of killing Boko Haram’s founder, Mohammed Yusuf, while in their custody, have been reinstated, a police oversight body said on Monday.

The officers were charged with committing a terrorist act and unlawfully killing the Islamist group’s spiritual leader during days of unrest in the northeast city of Maiduguri in July 2009.

The clashes, in which about 800 Boko Haram followers were killed, prompted an escalation in violence that has since left at least 20,000 dead and made over 2.6 million more homeless.

A judge in Abuja in late December 2015 acquitted the policemen on the grounds the prosecution could not establish a case against them. The ruling attracted little publicity at the time.


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