Falana demands prosecution of terrorism financiers, insurgents after Kuje attack

Femi Falana, a senior Nigerian attorney, questioned the Federal Government’s decision to not bring charges against alleged terrorists and their financiers on Sunday.

The attorney was responding to the ISWAP raid on the Kuje Correctional Center in Abuja on last Tuesday, which resulted in the release of hundreds of prisoners, including suspected terrorists, held there.
Abubakar Malami, the nation’s attorney general and minister of justice, claimed in September of last year that the federal government had apprehended prominent figures who were sponsoring terrorism in the nation.

However, he defended the prolonged prosecution of the suspects by asserting that the federal government was resolved to implement strict measures to deal with the country’s insurgency.

In a statement he personally signed, Falana asked the AGF to file charges financiers of terrorism and the terrorists themselves, adding that the National Assembly should monitor the prosecution.

The statement read: “We are compelled to call on the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), to ensure that the indicted sponsors of terrorism and terror suspects are charged before the Federal High Court.

“Since only 64 terror suspects are detained in Kuje correctional centre, the AGF should disclose to Nigerians where the 400 sponsors of terrorism and the 800 terror suspects who were due to be arraigned in the Federal High Court last year are being detained.

“We also call on the members of the National Assembly who have been appropriating funds for the prosecution of terror suspects to monitor the prosecution of the indicted terror suspects.”