By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA— Two commanders of Ansaru, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, Mahmud Usman (also known as Abu Bara’a) and Abubakar Abba (popularly called Mahmud Al-Nigeri or Isah Adam/Mallam Mamuda), were on Monday handed life sentences by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The duo were convicted after they pleaded guilty to a 32-count terrorism charge preferred against them by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Trial Justice Emeka Nwite sentenced the convicts to life in prison on counts 30 and 31 of the charge, while they were handed a 20-year jail term on the rest of the charges.
The court held that their jail term should commence from the date they were arrested.
