Nigerian federal government has filed charges against some alleged coup conspirators accused of plotting to topple President Bola Tinubu’s government.
The defendants, including retired military officers, are to be arraigned on 13 charges before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday.
Also charged is Timipre Silva, a former Governor of Bayelsa who served as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources during the late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The other defendants are Mohammed Ibrahim Gana, a retired major-general, Erasmus Ochegobia Victor, a retired navy captain, and Ahmed Ibrahim, a police inspector. The rest are Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Kashim Goni and Abdulkadir Sani.
The 13 charges range from treason, terrorism, failure to disclose inform the security intelligence about the coup plot to money laundering and terrorism financing.
The charges signed by Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Rotimi Oyedepo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, for the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, alleged that the defendants “conspired with one another to levy war against the state to overawe the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
This charge was brought under Section 37(2) of the Criminal Code.
Another charge alleged that the defendants had prior knowledge of a planned treasonable act involving one Colonel Mohammed Alhassan Ma’aji and others but failed to alert the authorities.
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