Reprieve seems to have come the way of terror convict, Henry Okah, as a South Africa court has agreed to postpone his sentencing.
The trial judge, Justice Neels Claassen fixed February the 28th, 1st of March or the 4th of March for his sentencing.
Counsel to Mr. Okah, Mr. Lucky Multulanla told the trial judge, on Thursday that his client wishes to call at least five witnesses in and outside Nigeria to testify for the mitigation of the convict’s sentence in the interest of the Niger Delta community.
The court had at its last sitting on January 21 found Mr. Okah guilty of conspiracy to commit terrorism by masterminding two car bomb attacks in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on the 1st of October , 2010.
But the court had reserved the pronouncement of its sentence till yesterday (Thursday).
Mr Okah likened his trial to a lynch mob because efforts he made to defend himself were allegedly frustrated by the Nigerian government just as state counsel, Mr. Shaun Abraham dismissed this, saying that Mr. Okah was given every opportunity to defend himself but failed on the 21st of this month.
