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DSS Permitted To Detain Tukur Mamu For 60 More Days

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Bandits’ Negotiator, Tukur Mamu Arrested In Egypt

The Division of State Providers (DSS) has been permitted to detain the writer of Desert Herald, Tukur Mamu, for 60 extra days.

Naija Information studies the presiding choose, Justice Nkeonye Maha, gave the ruling on Tuesday in response to an ex-parte movement moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji.

Within the movement marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 and dated September 12, the DSS had urged the courtroom to grant its request to allow it to conclude the investigation on Mamu.

Recall that the Kaduna prepare assault negotiator was arrested on the Kano Worldwide Airport after he returned from Egypt the place he had been detained on his strategy to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.

Mamu, an aide to a well-liked Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, has been concerned in negotiations for the discharge of individuals kidnapped throughout an assault on a prepare in Kaduna, in March 2022.

Reacting in a press release on Sunday, DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunaya, stated the safety company wouldn’t be distracted by “skewed utterances”.

He described the end result of the company’s investigation of Mamu as “mind-boggling”.

Commenting on his arrest, Gumi had stated detaining Mamu is an act of terrorism and that the DSS ought to both cost him to a courtroom or launch him.