Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Abuja Federal High Court has sentenced a Boko Haram terrorist victim, Ali Kolo, to nine years imprisonment after more than ten years in the detention.
Kolo, who was shot in the right leg by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State, was on Thursday found guilty of failure to report activities of the dreaded group to security agents.
The Boko Haram victim was put on trial by the Federal Government on a four-count charge but pleaded guilty to one count which bordered on concealment of information on the activities of the terrorist group in Borno State.
A Federal Government lawyer, Mr. David Kaswe, who led the prosecution, told Justice Lifu that the defendant in 2017 failed to convey information on the activities of the terrorists to the military or any other security agency as required by the provisions of Terrorism Prevention and Prohibition Act, 2013.
The lawyer, a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Justice, tendered the extra-judicial statement where the convict admitted failure to relay information on the terror group to the appropriate quarters as well as an investigation report which indicted him for refusal to help the Federal Government in curbing the activities of terrorists.
Justice Lifu admitted the two exhibits following no objection from the defence counsel, Mrs A.O Usman.
