BREAKING NEWS! Court sentences Boko Haram's ex-spokesperson to three-year jail


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An Abuja magistrate court has sentenced to three-year jail term an ex-spokesperson of the Nigeria's extremist Boko Haram sect blamed for scores of attacks, including the August suicide bombing of UN headquarters here, killing 23 people and injuring more than 80 others.

Chief Magistrate Oyebola Oyewumi had convicted Ali Konduga for felony on November 22 after he pleaded guilty to the one-count charge against him and asked for leniency.

The magistrate however deferred sentencing to a later date because the second accused person in the case, Ali Ndume, a serving senator, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

At the November 22 hearing of the matter, the prosecutor, whose name was simply given as C. I. Osagie, had told the court that the accused persons conspired to commit felony, breach of official trust, and criminal intimidation by sending anonymous text messages to some senior public officials, including the attorney-general of the federation, contrary to Sections 79, 98 and 398 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

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Just 3yrs-for wasting the lives of hundreds of people?

lord have mercy.i wonder which kind of a country and government we have.Somebody that has been responsible for the death of many and you are giving him 3yrs?is this a confirmation that Bokoharam is political? I think it is high time MEND,OPC and MASSOD started their madness cos this judgement is bullsh!t and an insult to the families that have lost one or two persons to their activities.


BTW what has happened to the report of those indicted as being responsible for the post election violence.LOOTERTAN/PDP WE ARE COMING FOR YOU.THIS MADNESS MUST TO STOP.

3yrs for killing hundreds.

The guy waz never a member of the REAL BOKO HARAM.The SSS are just trying to cover their cluesness and incompetence

He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

naptu2:

He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

MUMU

Lol! Can you name the person he was convicted of killing?

naptu2:

Lol! Can you name the person he was convicted of killing?

BOKO HARAM HAS MANY MEMBERS AND EACH ONE OF THEM IS A TERRORIST.IF HE TRULY HE WAS A MEMBER OF BOKO HARAM,HE IS A TERRORIST AND THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF MANY

what can we say?

true @naptu. He had already bn sentenced initially to 9 years imprisonment. So added 2 dis it's 12 years.

naptu2:

He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

what the f[i]u[/i]ck are you smoking?. . .spewing out such lame arguments in a blind defense of an utterly disgusting judicial system is sickening, Just sickening!

Boko Haram is a terrorist organization, all members, present and past, should bear the joint blame for murder activities in which the organization is complicit and to which it has accepted responsibility for.  Attempting to separate the spokesman from those planting bombs will result in miscarriage of Justice at best.

In law, the ultimate should be intent. , which if established should bear the same degree of punishment with actual action. . . . A financier of terrorist activities is a terrorist. . . a spokesman for terror groups is a terrorist. . .the law should make an example of them, none of these animals deserve their places among humans. . . .any Judgment short of hanging them by their ballz is totally laughable.

This ruling is a further blow to the Nigerian Judicial system.  The same law that will send gays to a 14 year jail term!. . .

naptu2:

He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

and they tag 14 years for gays? This country is doomed

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He was not convicted for killing anybody. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages and being a member of Boko Haram.

Dont this guy deserve an award?

just like these ibo guys
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-815410.32.html

Kx:

Just 3yrs-for wasting the lives of hundreds of people?

namfav:

just like these ibo guys
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-815410.32.html

fool > they will soon crack your own cell in bauchi

hmmm, ok

olyivy:

fool > they will soon crack your own cell in bauchi

The Dude

The guy

I may not like it, you may not like it, but the fact remains that he was not convicted for murder. He was convicted for sending threatening text messages.

ABUJA, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A Nigerian Islamist sect member was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for criminal intimidation, while charges against a senator who is accused of working with him were filed in Abuja's high court.

Ali Sanda Konduga pleaded guilty on Nov. 22 to the charges, which relate to threatening text messages sent to politicians during his time as a spokesman for Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect behind dozens of deadly attacks this year.

Konduga asked the court to treat him with leniency and pledged to help authorities tackle Boko Haram.

"In view of the plea for leniency, this court hereby sentences you, Ali Sanda Konduga, to three years in prison," Judge Oyebola Oyewumi said in an Abuja magistrates court. The charges carried a maximum sentence of nine years.

At the hearing last month, Senator Ali Ndume pleaded not guilty to charges of passing classified information to an unauthorised person and of criminal intimidation, for his alleged involvement with Konduga.

Ndume's case was withdrawn from the magistrates court and four new charges were presented to an Abuja high court this week, but he has yet to attend the court to deliver his plea. Court sources said the case may begin on Thursday or Friday.

The charges against Ndume include providing Konduga with politicians' phone numbers and not disclosing information to authorities under Nigeria's Terrorism Prevention Act.

Boko Haram, meaning "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been blamed for dozens of attacks in the remote northeast of Africa's most populous nation this year, mostly targeting authority figures.

It also claimed responsibility for two bombings in the capital Abuja this year, including a suicide attack on United Nations headquarters in August, which killed 24 people.

Nigeria's intelligence agency, the state security service, has said there is a strong political element to Boko Haram's violence. af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE7B504S20111206

i must confess, if he was trully what he was painted to be then this is a shit magistrate court.
But its obvious he is not connected to the real bombko haram, since the guys are still bombing.

Henry120:

true @naptu. He had already bn sentenced initially to 9 years imprisonment. So added 2 dis it's 12 years.

correct

God would punish the Judge and the SSS am outta this country, not planning on coming back anytime soon, God 4bid

I need paracetamol****slams d door****

3 yrs is too small, no matter his role, he is a terrorist and ought to sit in an electric chair.

Only?!

This is why I love extra judicial killings!!

One Officer should have just capped the Nigger on his way out of court and say he tried to run!!

You must find out what charges the police brought against. The court will only convict a man based on the charges. How long a jail term is is dependent in part on the prosecution.

Don't blame the court, the same lame charges was brought against Ndume.

If al zawahiri get arrested in nigeria, surely he would not get more than 5yrs behind bar. What a woeful judgement, if a whole spokesman of BH terrorist who has sent 100s of innocent souls to their early grave can be judged in a magistrate court and sent to just only 3yrs in jail? Then if abu mutalab was caught in Nigeria surely he would have been a free man long ago. This kind of judgement would really encourages young BH, after all the boss get caught and received a white glove sentence anyway  what kind of administration do we have ?

A guy caught handpicking a blackberry got 10-12years, and this dude is getting 3!!!.

For all i care, 9ja is f***kd.  Alamieyeseigha now appointed Chairman Of PDP Elders Forum, Bode George saying he's no rogue, Dimeji bankole got none and we want to curb corruption.

Only 3 yrs?

if u ask me,i say he deserve life imprisonment.