Okah’s Alleged Accomplice on October 1st Bombing Bags Life Sentence

Four days after Henry Okah, the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) who was accused of masterminding the October 1, 2010 bomb blasts in Abuja was found guilty by a South African court, one of his alleged accomplices, Edmund Ebiware was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
Ebiware was arrested by operatives of the State Security Service on the 2nd of October in Abuja.
Ebiware was found guilty on a three count charge bordering on concealing the plans and execution of a bomb attack during Nigeria’s 50th anniversary by Henry Okah.
Justice Kolawole who handed down the sentence allowed a caveat for the convict to be recommended to the committee on the prerogative of mercy for pardon if he remains of good behavior after thirty-two years imprisonment.
While delivering his ruling, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, who had listened to the testimony of the witnesses lined up as well as the exhibits, denounced Ebiware’s attitude and his failure to disclose to the agents of the Nigerian government that acts of terrorism were being planned.
Justice Kolawole said “I concluded that the accused person is adjudged guilty as charged, being aware early in September 2010, that Henry Okah was planning a bomb attack but did not give such information to any of the persons or authority listed in Section 40 (B) of the Criminal Code Act. ”
Henry Okah who was accused and has been found guilty of masterminding the blasts by a South African court and prosecutors say he could be facing a life sentence too.