Alleged coup: Fed Govt files charge against six individuals
…Ex-Bayelsa governor, Sylva said to be at large …arraignment planned for Wednesday The Federal Government has filed a charge six individuals, including a retired Major General, a retired Naval Captain,
...Ex-Bayelsa governor, Sylva said to be at large
...arraignment planned for Wednesday
The Federal Government has filed a charge six individuals, including a retired Major General, a retired Naval Captain, a serving police inspector, and three others over an alleged coup plot and acts of terrorism.
The 13-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/206/2026 was filed on Monday by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF), Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN) named former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva as being at large.
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Listed as defendants in the charge are Major General Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (rtd), Captain (NN) Erasmus Ochegobia Victor (rtd), Inspector Ahmed Ibrahim, Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Kashim Goni, and Abdulkadir Sani.
It was learnt that the arraignment of the defendants has been planned for April 22 before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The defendants are, in the charge, accused of offences ranging from treason and terrorism to failure to disclose security intelligence and money laundering linked to terrorism financing.
At the centre of the case is an allegation that the defendants conspired in 2025 to undermine the Nigerian state.
According to the charge, they “conspired with one another to levy war against the state to overawe the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” an offence punishable under Section 37(2) of the Criminal Code.
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The prosecution further alleged that the defendants had prior knowledge of a planned treasonable act involving one Colonel Mohammed Alhassan Ma’aji and others but failed to alert authorities.
The charge stated that they, “knowing that and intended to commit treason, did not give the information thereof with all reasonable despatch to either the President or a Peace Officer.”
In another count, the defendants were accused of failing to take preventive steps, as they allegedly “did not use any reasonable endeavours to prevent the commission of the offence.”
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Counts one and two of the charge read:
*That you, Major General Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (rtd), Captain (NN) Erasmus Ochegobia Victor (rtd), Inspector Ahmed Ibrahim (AP776373), Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Kashim Goni, Abdulkadir Sani and Timipre Sylva (still at large) and others, sometime in the year 2025, in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired with one another to levy war against the state to overawe the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 37(2) of the Criminal Code Cap C38 LFN 2004.
*That you, Major General Mohammed Ibrahim Gana (rtd), Captain (NN) Erasmus Ochegobia Victor (rtd), Inspector Ahmed Ibrahim (AP776373), Zekeri Umoru, Bukar Kashim Goni, Abdulkadir Sani and Timipre Sylva (still at large) and others, sometime in the year 2025, in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, knowing that Colonel Mohammed Alhassan Ma'aji (N/ 10668) and others intended to commit treason, did not give the information thereof with all reasonable despatch to either the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, or a Peace Officer and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 40(b) of the Criminal Code Cap C38 LFN 2004.
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