Court sentences Boko Haram member to death for murder…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Boko Haram member, Auwalu Samaila, to death by hanging.

Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment delivered on Thursday, April 9, 2026, found Samaila guilty and sentenced to death after pleading guilty to the six charges brought against him by the Federal Government.

The judge said: “It is when someone feels remorse and seeks forgiveness from God that he can have mercy from him.

“The inmate in front of me feels no remorse despite many atrocities and lives that have slipped out of his hands.

“May God have mercy on his soul.”

The federal government, under the indictment marked: FHC/KNJ/CR/122/2026, arraigned Samaila for terrorism-related offenses as the sole defendant.

In the first case, Samaila, a native of Gulak village in Madagali Local Government Area of ​​Adamawa State, allegedly confessed, between 2012 and 2017, in Sabongari Kyambula village, Gulak LGA of the state, to being a member of Boko Haram, a proscribed terrorist organisation.

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He is also believed to have participated in the attack in Gombi, Adamawa state, where dozens of people were killed.

The offence, the prosecution said, was contrary to section 1(2) of the Terrorism (Prevention Amendment) Act, 2013 and was punishable under the same section of the Act.

Justice Omotosho, in separate rulings on Thursday, also convicted and sentenced two Boko Haram terrorists to life imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to terrorist offences.

The two convicted are Shura Abdullahi and Abdulrahman Ari.

The judge equally sentenced Aisami Kadi, Umaru Usman and Abdulrahman Hassan, who pleaded guilty to the charges, to various prison terms, ranging from 20 to 21 years in the charges preferred against them by the federal government.

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