FG secures 1,721 terrorism convictions through mass trial programme as military neutralizes 1,597 terrorists in six months

From Molly Kilete, Abuja,
The Federal Government Thursday said it has secured a total of 1,721 terrorism-related convictions since the commencement of its Mass Trial Programme in October 2017.
Director, Legal Services, Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), Zakari Mijinyawa, who made this known, said the programme which is being coordinated by the ONSA, Federal Ministry of Justice, Judiciary and security agencies, had completed ten phases of terrorism trials.
Mijinyawa, at a joint security news briefing by the spokespersons of the security, defence, and law enforcement agencies held in Abuja, said the programme has also discharged or acquitted defendants where evidence fail...