The Abu Dhabi federal court of appeal sentenced Saleh Adamu and Surajo Muhammed to life imprisonment while Muhammad Ibrahim, AbdurRahman Ado Musa, Bashir Ali and Ibrahim Ali were each sentenced to 10 years in prison all followed by deportation in April 2019.
This occurred after they were found guilty of setting a cell in the UAE to raise funds and material assistance for Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria. They were reported to have transferred a whooping sum of $800,000 in favour of the insurgents between the year 2015 and 2016.
However, their family mentioned that the convicts were involved in a legitimate bureau de change business here in Nigeria and UAE while other relatives stated to Daily Trust that the men "were most likely deceived in the course of their routine bureau de change transactions to the extent that some of the transactions they facilitated turned out to be for proceeds meant for Boko Haram activities."
"It was gathered that one of the Boko Haram couriers, Alhaji Sa'idu, would arrange an unidentified or vaguely identified Arab person on a visit to Dubai from Turkey to hand over an amount of money in US Dollars to one of the convicts who would, in turn, advise his Nigerian-based business partners to hand over the Naira equivalent of the amount to him (Alhaji Sa'idu)."
A source reported to have state that Alhaji Sa'idu only used the gullibility of the victims to achieve his aim as the victims were innocent people who were about their daily business.
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