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Nigeria’s secret police arrest terrorists’ negotiator

ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – The lead negotiator between bandits and the passengers kidnapped from a Kaduna-bound train in March, Alhaji Tukur Mamu, has been arrested by the Nigerian secret police.

The Kaduna-based published was first arrested in Cairo and detained for 24 hours before he was flown back to Nigeria.

Local media reported that he was picked up immediately after the Egypt Air aircraft which conveyed him and his family members, touched down in Kano around 1:55 pm.

The spokesperson of the Department of State Services (DSS), Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja confirmed Mamu’s arrest.

“This is to confirm that Mamu, as a person of interest, was intercepted by Nigeria’s foreign partners at Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday while on his way to Saudi Arabia.

“He was returned to the country on Wednesday and had been taken into the Service’s custody,” he said.

Afunanya said the arrest followed a request by Nigeria’s Military, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community to their foreign partners to bring back Mamu to the country.

He said the request was for him to answer critical questions on ongoing investigations relating to some security matters in parts of the country.

Suspected bandits blew up a track on the Abuja-Kaduna route in the northwest of the country and then opened fire on the night train in the late March 28 attack.

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said it could not account for 168 people following the attack in which eight people were killed and several wounded.

A few days after, the bandits contacted the families of the passengers to say they are holding their relatives who went missing and demanding ransom.

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