A South African court found suspected Niger Delta militant leader Henry Okah guilty of terrorism on Monday for masterminding two car bombs that killed at least 10 people in the Nigerian capital at an independence day ceremony in 2010.
Judge Neels Claassen said Okah, who was accused of leading the militant MEND group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, was found guilty on 13 counts ranging from conspiracy to commit terrorism to detonating explosives.
"The evidence that was given by his accomplices was not contradicted," Claassen told the court in Johannesburg.
Okah, who moved to South Africa after the amnesty and was arrested there, would be sentenced on Jan 30.
He was also found guilty of masterminding the two explosions in Warri in March 2010.
Henry Okah was found guilty on all counts and faces a minimum sentence of life in prison.
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