Tukur Mamu, the self-appointed negotiator of the ill-fated Kaduna train that was attacked by terrorists, is to spend another 60 days in DSS detention as a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, granted a prayer by the secret police to detain him as investigations continue.
In a short ruling, Justice Nkeonye Maha on an ex-parte motion moved by counsel for the DSS, Ahmed Magaji, granted the motion as prayed.
The security outfit, in the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 dated and filed September 12, had urged the court to grant its reliefs to enable it conclude its investigation on Mamu, who had been leading the negotiation with the terrorists for the release of the Abuja-Kaduna train passengers kidnaped in March.
Mamu was, on September 6, arrested in Cairo, capital of Egypt, with his family members by foreign security agents.
Mamu, who was on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj, was detained at Cairo International Airport before his rendition back to Nigeria.
The DSS, in a statement on Sunday by its Spokesman, Peter Afunaya, asked the public to leave the agency alone and allow it to concentrate on the investigations which it said the outcomes had been “mindboggling.”
This come hours after the Islamic cleric, Sheik Gumi, to whom Mamu is an aide, had faulted the arrest of the negotiator.
Gumi, at a religious gathering on Friday in Kaduna, had asked the security agency to charge Mamu to court of it had any evidence against him, rather than keeping him in custody.
