The Human rights advocate and cerebral legal practitioner Femi Falana, has warned Nigerian government both at federal and state levels against negotiating with and rewarding terrorists, describing the practice as illegal.
Penpushing reports that Falana made this clear while delivering the keynote address at the Amnesty International Second Annual General Meeting held in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) pointed out that it is public knowledge that officials of the governments have been holding meetings and negotiating with terrorists and bandits, which has led to thousands of ‘repentant’ criminals being forgiven and given cash gifts of undisclosed sums of money.
Penpushing further reports that he asserted that the satanic Boko Haram sect and similar bodies have been proscribed under the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, stressing that their members and allies shall be prosecuted and not pampered and forgiven by the Nigerian State.
The renowned lawyer highlighting the legal consequences, quoted Section 22 of the Act, emphasizing that anybody caught in the act is is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of at least 20 years
“A person who knowingly—(a) arranges, manages, assists in arranging or managing, participates in a meeting or an activity, which in his knowledge is concerned or connected with an act of terrorism or terrorist group, (b) collects, or provides logistics, equipment, information, articles or facilities for a meeting or an activity, which in his knowledge is concerned or connected with an act of terrorism or terrorist group, or (c) attends a meeting, which in his knowledge is to support a proscribed entity or to further the objectives of a proscribed entity, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of at least 20 years’, he quoted the act
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