Edmund Ebiware, described
as an accomplice to MEND's leader, Henry Okah in the 2010 Independence Day
Bombing in Abuja, has been found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment by a
Federal High Court in Abuja today.
He was arrested on October 2, 2010 at the Bolingo
Hotel by the Nigerian secret police for failing to provide the government
information about the planning and eventual execution of the bombing that
killed 12 people on October 1st 2010 at the Federal capital city of Abuja.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole, presiding at the trial,
gave a three hour ruling squarely blaming Ebiware for failure to disclose the
planned acts of terrorism against the Nigerian state to the appropriate
authorities.
The conviction and sentencing of Ebiware did not go
down well with him as he became agitated and fought off security agents as they
dragged him off to prison.
The accused leader of the Movement for the
Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Henry Okah, was also last week convicted for
the bombing by a South African high court in Gauteng. He will be sentenced in
February 2013.
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