NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS ATTRACTS 20-YEAR JAIL TERM — FALANA WARNS FG, STATE GOVERNMENTS
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By: Muftau Fatimo
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has cautioned the federal and state governments against engaging in negotiations with or offering incentives to terrorists.
According to Falana, the practice is illegal.
He stated this while delivering the keynote address at the Amnesty International Second Annual General Meeting in Abuja on June 13, 2026.
Falana alleged that it is common knowledge that officials of the Federal Government and some state governments have engaged in meetings and negotiations with terrorists and bandits, resulting in the pardon of thousands of so-called repentant criminals and the payment of undisclosed cash rewards.
Maintaining that the “satanic Boko Haram sect and similar groups have been proscribed” under the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, Falana argued that their members and collaborators should face prosecution rather than receive leniency or state-backed incentives.
Highlighting the legal consequences, he quoted Section 22 of the Act, stating: “A person who knowingly—(a) arranges, manages, assists in arranging or managing, participates in a meeting or an activity, which in his knowledge is concerned or connected with an act of terrorism or terrorist group, (b) collects, or provides logistics, equipment, information, articles or facilities for a meeting or an activity, which in his knowledge is concerned or connected with an act of terrorism or terrorist group, or (c) attends a meeting, which in his knowledge is to support a proscribed entity or to further the objectives of a proscribed entity, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of at least 20 years.”
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