Six Nigerians Convicted for Funding Boko Haram in UAE *Top Nigerian government officials also indicted
Six Nigerians have been sentenced to death by an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for sponsoring Boko Haram insurgents. The conviction was upheld by the appellate court after they lost an earlier appeal at a lower court. According to reports on Monday, Surajo Abubakar Muhammad and Saleh Yusuf Adamu were sentenced to life imprisonment. The rest – Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali Yusuf and Muhammad Ibrahim Isa, got 10 years imprisonment each. Court documents show that between 2015 and 2016, the convicts were allegedly involved in cash transfers totaling $782,000 to…