Abuja Federal High Court has sentenced a Lebanese, Tahal Roda, to life imprisonment on terrorism charges. He was charged to court by the Department of State Security Services, SSS. Two other Lebanese, Mustapha Fawaz and Abdullah Thani, were freed of the same charges. 


Mr. Fawaz is a co-owner of one of Abuja’s largest supermarkets, Amigo Supermarket, and Wonderland Amusement Park, also in Abuja. Both buildings have been sealed since the suspects were arrested by the military and the SSS.

The Federal Government had dragged the accused, Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thahani and Talal Ahmed Rodo, to court over terrorist activities bordering on illegal importation of firearms.

The Lebanese were also accused of being members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon based group considered a terrorist organisation by the U.S.