{"id":4649,"date":"2022-10-06T17:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:08:32","slug":"court-sentences-man-to-16-years-jail-term-for-terrorism-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/court-sentences-man-to-16-years-jail-term-for-terrorism-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Sentences Man to 16 Years Jail Term for Terrorism in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced Saleh Iro Yusuf to sixteen years imprisonment for offences bordering on terrorism.<\/p>\n
Saleh was arraigned on a four-count charge of conspiracy to commit an offence, acts of terrorism, hostage-taking and kidnapping before the Federal High Court Lokoja.<\/p>\n
The presiding Judge, P. Mallong, convicted the defendant as charged and sentenced him to four years in prison on each count.<\/p>\n
The convict was arraigned by the Department of State Services, DSS Lokoja.<\/p>\n
The prosecuting Counsel, O. Yahaya, called a total of four witnesses, who tendered confessional statements of the defendant, a video recording of the confessional statement, and a compact disc which was duly admitted by the court.<\/p>\n
Consequently, Justice Mallong sentenced the accused on the four-count charge for the offence of terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced Saleh Iro Yusuf to sixteen years imprisonment for offences…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-4649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crime","7":"tag-kogi"},"yoast_head":"\n