A Federal High Court judge sentenced Talal Ahmad Roda, one of the three
Lebanese nationals arrested in connection with illegal possession of weapons
and links to Hezbollah, for life imprisonment on November 29, 2013, Friday.
Two other co-accused
persons, Mustapha Fawaz, the owner of a popular Amigo Supermarket and Abdallah
Tahini were set free by the judge.
Giving the ruling
today Justice Ademola Adeniyi said that there was no room for judicial
discussion as to the first and second accused persons, he subsequently ordered
that they should be released immediately with their personal belongings
released to them.
Regarding the third
suspect, the judge ruled that the he was guilty of all the five counts of
illegal possession of weapons and conspiracy, as he was found at the location
of the arm cache in Kano.
It would be recalled
that the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano arrested the men on May 31 with a large
cache of arms in a bunker during a raid on their residence. Weapons recovered
were 17 AK 47 rifles, 44 magazines, four land mines and 12 RPG bombs, 14 RPG
chargers, 11 66 mm anti-tanks weapons, one SMG magazine, one pistol and several
magazines.
Also recovered were
11,433 rounds of 7.26 mm special, 76 hand grenades, rocket-propelled guns, and
122 calibre artillery and anti-mine weapons.
The suspects, who were
previously in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS), were later
transferred to prison custody following an alarm raised by the suspects that
their lives were not safe in the hands of the SSS.
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