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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