The Federal Authorities has filed a 13-count cost earlier than a Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja towards former Minister of State for Petroleum Assets, Timipre Sylva, a retired Main Basic, a retired Naval Captain, a serving police inspector and three others over their alleged involvement as coup plotters in a plot to wage warfare towards Nigeria and commit acts of terrorism.
The opposite defendants, Main Basic Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (retd), Captain (NN) Erasmus Victor (retd), Inspector Ahmed Ibrahim, Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Goni and Abdulkadir Sani, are scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday earlier than Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the court docket.
Sylva is alleged to be at massive.
The cost, filed by the Workplace of the Legal professional-Basic of the Federation and signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, accuses the defendants of offences starting from treason and terrorism to failure to reveal safety intelligence and cash laundering linked to terrorism financing.
On the coronary heart of the case is an allegation that the defendants conspired in 2025 to undermine the Nigerian state.
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Based on the cost, they “conspired with each other to levy warfare towards the state to overawe the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” an offence punishable beneath Part 37(2) of the Legal Code.
The prosecution additional alleged that the defendants had prior information of a deliberate treasonable act involving one Colonel Mohammed Alhassan Ma’aji and others, however didn’t alert authorities.
The cost states that they, “understanding that and was supposed to commit treason, didn’t give the data thereof with all cheap despatch to both the President or a Peace Officer.”
In a associated rely, the defendants had been additionally accused of failing to take preventive steps, as they allegedly “didn’t use any cheap endeavours to stop the fee of the offence.”
Past treason, the Federal Authorities is prosecuting the defendants for terrorism-related offences beneath the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.
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