Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to life imprisonment.
Justice Omotosho delivered the judgment on Thursday, four years after Mr Kanu was arrested in Kenya under contentious circumstances and brought back to Nigeria.
Mr Omotosho, who earlier convicted Mr Kanu in all seven counts preferred against him, held that the Federal Government had been able to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt against Kanu in the terrorism offences.
Justice Omotosho consequently sentenced the IPOB leader to life imprisonment in counts one, four, five and six, instead of the death penalty.
According to the judge, life is sacred to God.
The judge, who sentenced Mr Kanu to a 20-year jail term in count three, however, committed him to three years’ imprisonment in count seven.
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