Court Sentences Arms Courier, Halima Umar To 20 Years In Prison

Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a woman, Halima Haliru Umar, to 20 years’ imprisonment following her conviction on the offences of unlawful possession of 302 rounds of AK-47 live ammunition and attempting to render support for the commission of acts of terrorism.

CHANNELS TV reported yesterday that Halima  during her arraignment on March 11, pleaded guilty to two counts contained in a four-count charge brought against her by the DSS which arrested her in Plateau State.

The facts of the offences charged in counts three and four, to which she pleaded guilty, were reviewed after her arraignment, following which Justice Hauwa Yilwa adjourned for judgment in relation to the two counts that she admitted.

In her judgment, Justice Yilwa noted that the convict pleaded guilty to counts three and four on the four-count charge on the day of her arraignment.

The judge added that by her guilty plea, she admitted the facts as presented by the prosecution, without presenting any evidence in her defence.