The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said the Federal Government would on October 9, kick-start the trial of over 1,600 suspected Boko Haram terrorists currently held in various detention facilities in the country, said Nigerian newspaper Vanguard.

Malami, SAN, in a statement he made available to Vanguard on Sunday, disclosed that out of a total of 1,670 members of the terrorist sect that were profiled at the Kainji detention center, in Niger State, 220 of them were recommended for release/deradicalisation programme, owing to the absence of evidence to prosecute them.