Court Grants DSS Leave To Detain Terrorists’ Negotiator Mamu For 60Days

Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, granted the Department of State Services (DSS), approval to detain the terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days.

In a ruling on an ex-parte motion moved by counsel to the DSS, Mr. Ahmed Magaji, the presiding judge, Justice Nkeonye Maha, granted the motion for a detention order.

In the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 dated September 12 and filed same day, the DSS prayed the court to grant its reliefs to enable it conclude its investigation on Mamu, who had been leading the negotiation with terrorists for the release of the passengers of the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna bound that were abducted in March.

Mamu was arrested in Cairo, capital of Egypt on his way to Saudi Arabia on September 6, along with his two wives, a son and brother in-law and were deported the following day being Wednesday, September 7, 2022.

The DSS on Sunday said that there had been mind boggling revelations from the outcome of investigation on Mamu so far and warned members of the public against making unguarded utterances on the arrest of the terrorists’ negotiator.

The Service in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Peter Afunaya, appealed to members of the public to allow the agency to concentrate on the investigations.

The DSS’ warning followed statements credited to a Kaduna based Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, whom Mamu serves as media adviser, challenged the Service to charge Mamu to court or release him from detention.

Gumi told a gathering religious adherents last week Friday in Kaduna, that if the DSS has any evidence against the terrorists’ negotiator, they should charge him to court and not keep in detention unnecessarily.

In a veiled response, the DSS stated that it not distracted with some of the skewed narratives pervading the media space, stressing that the court will determine its course.

Afunannya said; “Consequently, the public is hereby enjoined to desist from making unguarded utterances and await the court proceedings”.