By RhemDy News
Three terrorists were on Thursday convicted and sentenced to death by hanging by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, over charges bordering on terrorism.
The three convicts had pleaded guilty to terrorism charged pressed against them by the Federal Government in the ongoing mass trial.
Justice James Omotosho sentenced Danladi Lawal to death by hanging while Justice Salim Ibrahim slammed death sentence on Abdullahi Mohammed and Mohammed Gulama Shaibu.
The 33-year-old Lawal, also known as Dankawu, pleaded guilty to counts one, two, three, four and five after the charge was read to him before Justice Omotosho.
Accordingly, the judge sentenced Lawal to 30 years imprisonment in count one, 15 years in count two, life imprisonment for count three, death by hanging for count four, and life imprisonment in count five.
The Federal Government has in suit no: FHC/KNJ/CR/956/2026, through the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, preferred a five-count charge against the convict.
In count four that attracted a death penalty, Lawal, a native of Maikaho Village, Jibya Local Government Area of Katsina State, and others now at large, committed the offence sometime in 2020 at the village.
The convicts were accused to have unlawfully abducted and detained an elderly man for four days in a bush at Ilela and demanded the sum of N950,000.00 as ransom from his family, thereby intimidating the public and causing serious fear and insecurity in the community.
The prosecutor claimed that the offence is contrary to Section 1 (2) of the Terrorism (Prevention Amendment) Act 2013 and punishable under the same Section of the Act.
Similarly in Count 5 where Lawal got a life imprisonment, he was accused of knowingly receiving the sum of N450,000.00 being part of the ransom proceeds obtained from the kidnapping of an elderly man, an offence that is contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism (Prevention Amendment) Act 2013 and punishable under the same Section of the Act.
In a separate ruling, Justice Ibrahim sentenced Abdullahi Mohammed and Mohammed Gulama Shaibu to death by hanging following the guilty plea to the charges filed against them.
In the charge marked FHC/KNJ/CR/245/2026, Mohammed pleaded guilty to a one-count charge, while Shaibu, in the charge marked: FHC/KNJ/CR/329/2026, pleaded guilty to a two-count charge.
Subsequently, he court sentenced Shaibu to death in count one and life imprisonment in count two and equally sentenced Mohammed Dezami Sherife in charge number: FHC/KNJ/CR/1248/2026, to life imprisonment in counts two, six and eight of a 10-count charge earlier preferred against him by the Federal Government, after he pleaded guilty to them.
In a related development, Justice Omotosho also sentenced Shamsudeen Muhammad Ibrahim, a.k.a Abu Harira, to a life imprisonment in count one and a 35-year jail term in another count, which shall run from June 18.
Ibrahim, a native of Angwar Hayin Ikara Maje in Ikara LGA of Kaduna State committed the office sometime in 2022 in Kubwa, FCDA, Owner Occupiers.
The convict “knowingly rendered support to ISWAP by receiving trainings and sermons from A. Mujahid from Al-Qeada on promoting and sympathising with terrorist activities” contrary to Section 15(a) of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition Act, 2022) and punishable under the same section of the Act.
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