Gumi to DSS on Mamu’s Arrest: You are engaged in terrorism

Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, reacted to the arrest and detention of terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, by the Department of State Services.

The Kaduna State-based Islamic scholar made his position known in his Friday preaching at Sultan Bello Mosque, Kaduna.

Gumi said based on the provisions of the law, the DSS should have charged Mamu to court or release him in 24 hours.

Recall that Mamu, who negotiated the release of some of the victims of the Kaduna -Abuja train attack, was arrested last week at Cairo International Airport in Egypt on his way to Saudi Arabia for Lesser Hajj.

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He was sent back to Nigeria, where he was picked up by the DSS at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kanu.

Gumi said in his preaching: “Take him to court to face trial.

“Keeping him in custody despite being a family man was just to intimidate him.

“This intimidation is also terrorism.

“Arresting people unjustly is also terrorism.

“Just like the terrorists do by going to somebody’s house to kidnap him.

“How can we continue in this situation under a government that is about to wind up?

“Our hope is for them to finish successfully not in a bad light.

“It’s not about Tukur Mamu, you all know that whenever they arrest innocent people, I always talk, not to talk of someone that I know and I’m only advising the government to release him so that we can apologise to him to forget what happened.”

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