Updated: DSS gets court order to detain Mamu for 60 more days

A federal high court in Abuja has given the Department of State Services (DSS) the permission to detain Tukur Mamu, the Kaduna train attack negotiator, for 60 more days.

NAN reports the presiding judge, Nkeonye Maha, as issuing the ruling on Tuesday in response to an ex-parte motion moved by Ahmed Magaji, counsel for the DSS.

In the motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 and dated September 12, the DSS urged the court to grant its request to enable it to conclude the investigation on Mamu.

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 being repatriated back to Nigeria.
The DSS had, on Sunday, warned Nigerians over making comments on its arrest of Mamu.
The DSS, in a statement 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.