Oriire teachers were beheaded to force release of Ansaru commanders — DSS
A senior DSS official spoke after Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Mahmud Usman, also known as Abu Bara’a, Abbas or Mukhtar, the self-styled Emir of Ansaru, and Abubakar Abba, also known as Mahmud al-Nigeri or Malam Mamuda, to life imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to all 32 counts against them.
It would, therefore, not be fair for two men to be beheaded and their families left to live with that loss without adequately bringing the culprits to justice,” the official said.
The DSS says it will ask the Court of Appeal to set aside the life sentences, insisting the punishment does not adequately reflect the deaths of the two Oriire teachers whose captors, it says, sought the release of the convicted Ansaru commanders.
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