Self-acclaimed Boko Haram spokesperson, Alisanda Umar Konduga (aka Al-Zawahiri), was Tuesday sentenced to three years imprisonment by a magistrate court sitting in Abuja. Konduga, after pleading guilty to charges levied against him by State Security Service (SSS), was sentenced by Chief Magistrate Oyebola Oyewumi. Oyewunmi said the offence against the accused person is punishable by a maximum of seven years imprisonment. Also, a request by the counsel to SSS, Cliff Osagie, that the convict should spend his jail sentence in the custody off SSS custody was granted by the magistrate. Osagie made an oral request that the convict should serve the prison term in the custody of the SSS owing to the nature of the offence and the porous state of prisons in the country. Konduga was arrested on 3rd November at Gwange area, Maiduguri, Borno State, by a joint security operation. Upon his arrest, he implicated a serving senator, representing Borno South Senatorial District Muhammed Ali Ndume, as he confessed that the senator was involved with the sect. Konduga said he had not made a statement on behalf of Boko Haram for months and the group had expelled him. He was earlier arraigned before the magistrate court with Ndume over a two-count charge of criminal breach of trust, intimidation and anonymous calls and was convicted but not sentenced. Ndume would face a separate four count charge at the Federal High Court following withdrawal of the charge against him at the Magistrate's Court. Specifically, Konduga was accused of disclosing classified information to unauthorised persons between September 15 and November 3 in Maiduguri, Borno State and Abuja, contrary to Section 398 of the Penal Code. The acclaimed sect spokesperson who spoke through an interpreter pleaded guilty and leniency, as he said if pardoned, he was ready to supply useful information on the activities of the Boko Haram group to security agencies. The security agency had in the First Information Report (FIR) entered before the magistrate, insisted that Ndume supplied sensitive information to members of the Boko Haram sect. It alleged: “On diverse dates between September 15 and November 3, at Abuja and Maiduguri in Borno State, Mohammed Ali Ndume and Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (aka Al-Zawahiri) spokesman of the Boko Haram sect, did conspire to commit felony to wit: breach of official trust in that Mohammed Ali Ndume, disclosed classified information to persons to whom he ought not in the public interest to so disclose.” It further alleged that the accused persons did intimidate by anonymous communication, some senior public officials including the Attorney General of the Federation, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 79, 98 and 398 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 99(b) and 398 of the same code. Though Ndume denied his alleged connivance with the sect, Konduga admitted guilt and prayed the magistrate for leniency, saying he has repented of his evil deeds. Konduga confessed that whilst he acted as the spokesman of the sect, Ndume not only furnished them with classified information, but also gave them the phone numbers of highly placed persons who he said they often called with threat text messages. He revealed the last batch of text messages he sent to government officials in his capacity as the Boko Haram spokesman before he was subsequently stripped of the rank over suspicion that he was double-crossing the sect. The threat messages were sent to the Governors of Niger and Nasarawa states, to former Minister of Works, Sanusi Daggash, to the chairman of the Borno State Election Tribunal, Justice Sabo Adamu and Ambassador Dalhatu Tafida.