HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting in its Jos Judicial Division and delivered on the 17th of March, 2013 in Appeal No CA/J/183C/2011. The judgment upheld the decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Jos contained in a judgment delivered in Charge No FHC/J/34C/2010 on the 16th of December, 2010 convicting the Appellant and sentencing him to a term of years of imprisonment on three counts of offences.
The Appellant was one of fifteen persons arraigned before the Federal High Court on three count of offences, namely: conspiracy to commit terrorists acts within Jos and its environs, illegal possession of locally made guns, totaling seven in number, without a valid license and committing terrorists acts in Kadunu Village in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State while armed with dangerous weapons such as machetes, knives, bows and arrows, slings and axes during which they put t…