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A Boko Haram insurgency has killed thousands of people and
displaced millions since it began in 2009, creating a
humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria and putting pressure
on the government to bring the conflict to an end.
Kamarudeen Ogundele, the spokesman of the Attorney-General's
office, said in a statement late on Friday that "they were
convicted of charges bordering on terrorism, terrorism
financing, rendering material support, and cases relating to
International Criminal Courts (ICC) criminality".
The last mass trials of Boko Haram suspects took place between
2017 and 2018, where 163 people were convicted and 887 set free.
Ogundele added that from the previous convictions, 400
defendants who had completed their sentences were moved to a
rehabilitation centre known as Operation Safe Corridor in Gombe
State, northeast Nigeria "for rehabilitation, deradicalization
and subsequent reintegration".
Boko Haram kidnapped more than 270 girls from a school in the
northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, an attack that
sparked outrage and gave rise to the global "#Bring Back Our
Girls" campaign, though more than half of the girls have
returned, many as mothers of multiple children.
The breakdown of the latest convictions showed that 85 people
were convicted for terrorism financing, 22 for ICC related
crimes, while the rest were convicted for terrorism.
(Reporting by Camillus Eboh, Editing by William Maclean)
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