The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday sentenced two women arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for terrorism-related offences to 40 years imprisonment each.
The convicts, Safiya Salihu and Halima Abdullahi, are the mother and sister respectively of notorious terrorist kingpin, Kachallah Ibrahim Battujo, who was killed by security forces on June 10, 2026, in a forest near Iluke in Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Justice Hauwa Joseph Yilwa delivered the judgement after both defendants pleaded guilty to Counts 2, 4 and 5 of a five-count charge filed by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation.
They were, however, discharged of Counts 1 and 3, which involved allegations of receiving N490,300 from Battujo knowing it was proceeds of terrorism, as well as receiving sponsorship for a religious pilgrimage allegedly funded through terrorist proceeds.
The prosecution, led by Director of Public Prosecutions, Oyedepo Rotimi,
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