A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the main suspects in the 2010 Abuja bomb blast, Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze, to life imprisonment.
Okah and Nwabueze were arrested in connection to the Independence Day bombing in Abuja.
The presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, found the defendants guilty of the March 15, 2010 bomb blast in Warri, Delta state that cost one person his life and the October 1, 2010 bomb blast near the Eagle Square, Abuja.
The judge pointed that the second defendant, Obi Nwabueze, provided the help necessary for the heinous acts to be carried out. He is said to have collected N3.2m from the Okah brothers -Henry and Charles- to procure the used cars used in the bomb blasts.
This brings to three the number of men sentenced to life imprisonment over the bomb blast. The court had on July 27, 2017, sentenced a third defendant, Edmund Ebiware, to life imprisonment too.
