SSS arraigns 6 alleged Boko Haram members (Just for Show)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Thursday, September 29th, 2011

ABUJA- A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, granted leave to the State Security Service, SSS, to arraign six suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, today.

The accused persons, Shuaibu Abdulkadir, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Baba-Gana, Mohammed Ali, Musa Adamu and Umar Ibrahim, will be docked over allegations bothering on acts of terrorism, felony and treason.

Vanguard investigations revealed that the six suspects were among members of the sect who were on September 13, docked before an Abuja Chief Magistrate court over their alleged complicity in the detonation of bomb at the head office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Suleja, on the eve of the presidential election that held across the federation on April 16.

The SSS, while identifying them as staunch members of the Boko Haram sect in Nasarawa State, equally maintained that they were among the persons that masterminded the bombing of a branch of the All Christian Fellowship Mission, ACFM, Suleja, in May this year.

It yesterday told the trial court that the six accused persons were singled out from prosecution sequel to fresh incriminating evidences that was uncovered against them.

Meanwhile, though the accused persons were in court yesterday, the presiding judge in the case, Justice Aliyu Bilkisu, declined to take their plea following the failure of the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Thompson Olatigbe, who is a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, to avail the suspects with copies of the charges preferred against them.

Justice Bilkisu who noted that the accused persons had no legal representation in court, insisted that the tenets of justice and fair hearing, entails that they ought to be furnished with the charge to enable them to put up a defence before the court.

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