Afrigather The Egyptian Police have arrested the lead negotiator between the terrorists and passengers kidnapped from the attacked Abuja-Kaduna prepare, Alhaji Tukur Mamu.
The PUNCH gathered that Mamu was arrested in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Tuesday.
The terrorists’ negotiator was mentioned to have been arrested in Egypt alongside his relations.
Mamu was mentioned to be on his method to Saudi Arabia for the lesser Hajj when he was detained on the Cairo Worldwide Airport.
Efforts by our correspondent to succeed in out to Mamu by cellphone calls and textual content messages proved abortive as a lady was heard talking when a name acquired by to his line.
In the meantime, Mamu’s arrest was coming a number of days after the All Progressives Congress vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, visited the writer and Sheikh Gumi in Kaduna State.
The ex-negotiator personally shared photos of the go to with our correspondent on Monday.
Confirming the arrest, the Administration of the Desert Herald Newspaper, mentioned the arrest was an try and intimidate its writer.
In a press release on Wednesday by its Head, Particular Tasks, Ibrahim Mada, the administration accused the Federal authorities of contriving the arrest, deportation of Mamu from Egypt to Nigeria.
The assertion learn, “His patriotic mission to make sure the protection of the hapless passengers made him a goal of blackmail by unscrupulous components within the authorities who’re hell bent in punishing him for this noble however harmful sacrifice for the fatherland. Such threats and intimidations have pressured him to disclose on a lot of instances that his life was below severe risk.
“On account of quite a few threats to his life and conspiracy from the aspect of safety brokers to border him, he withdrew from the mentioned negotiations however from his newest sojourn, it seems that those that are desperately praying for his head are nonetheless hell-bent in finishing up their odious dastardly plans.
“However it’s our fervent hope that the evil machination of those determined components might be nixed by the truth that Allah is all the time by the aspect of the oppressed. This evil machination like those earlier than it, shall additionally come to move,” the assertion learn partially
The PUNCH experiences that some bloodthirsty terrorists attacked the Abuja-Kaduna sure AK9 prepare on March 28, and kidnapped some passengers.
The terrorists planted explosive gadgets alongside the rail observe and when the prepare approached the purpose, the system exploded, inflicting the prepare to derail, resulting in the demise of eight passengers.
A day after the assault, one other passenger who suffered from a gunshot wound died, making it 9, the whole variety of these killed within the assault.
From the manifest obtained by the Nigerian Railway Company, 398 passengers purchased tickets however 362 had been validated as having purchased tickets. Over 60 passengers are nonetheless within the kidnappers’ den and have spent over 50 days in captivity.
After the kidnapping, the bandits threatened to begin the killing of kidnapped passengers of their custody if the Federal Authorities failed to satisfy their calls for inside seven days.
Components of the calls for had been the unconditional launch of their detained youngsters held in an orphanage house in Adamawa State below the strict supervision of the Nigerian Military in addition to the discharge of their detained comrades at arm.
The terrorists additionally disclosed that the suspended prepare service by the Nigerian Railway Company slated for Might 23 on the Abuja-Kaduna route was a results of their risk to the federal government.
In response to the bandits, the federal government just isn’t honest with the negotiation, warning that until their detained youngsters, forcefully taken away by safety operatives from their wives in Nasarawa State and detained in Adamawa State, are launched, not one of the kidnapped passengers will come out alive.
