Ade Adesomoju
The physically challenged 35-year-old Haruna Yahaya, earlier sentenced on Monday to 15 years imprisonment for participating in Boko Haram members’ abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, in April 2014, has bagged fresh 15 years jail term.
The Federal High Court sitting in Wawa Cantonment, Kainji, Niger State, which delivered both the Monday’s and Friday’s judgments, convicted him again on Friday for masterminding the abduction.
Yahaya, who hailed from Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State, pleaded guilty to the separate charges read to him on Monday and Friday.
He was on Monday convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for separate counts of being a member of Boko Haram punishable under section 16(1) of the Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act 2013 and of participating in the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, an act punishable…
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