The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday, October 24, 2014 threw out an application by senator Mohammed Ali Ndume for his trial as an alleged sponsor of Islamist sect, Boko Haram to be held in secret.
Vanguard reports that the application was filed by the office of the country’s attorney general and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN).
The federal government accuses Ndume, the senator currently representing Borno South federal constituency, of providing the insurgents with information, including telephone numbers of top government officials and judges (Adoke inclusive). The sect members in turn called some of the numbers, threatening to visit them with “fire and brimstone”.
The government had earlier submitted proof that the senator made contact with the sect about 73 times, culminating in a 4-count charge against Ndume.
Senator Ndume had asked for a secret trial after two more witnesses were brought in by the federal government.
