Okah was arrested in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 2, 2010, a day after twin car bomb explosions during Nigeria’s 50th Independence anniversary celebrations in Abuja killed 12 people.
Convicted Nigerian militant leader, Henry Okah, has accused the South African government of deliberately obstructing his access to the country’s Constitutional Court and plotting to unlawfully transfer him to Nigeria after years of detention.
Okah was arrested in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 2, 2010, a day after twin car bomb explosions during Nigeria’s 50th Independence anniversary celebrations in Abuja killed 12 people.
On January 21, 2013, a South African court convicted him on 13 terrorism-related charges, including his role in the October 1, 2010 Abuja bombings.
Before his conviction, Okah had earlier been arrested in Angola in 2007 on allegations of gun-running and was subsequently transferred to Nigeria for prosecution, but he was never convicted.
