Alleged terrorist negotiator, Mamu, loses fresh bail bid

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA— A Federal High Court sitting successful Abuja, yesterday, dismissed a caller bail exertion by alleged Abuja-Kaduna bid kidnap negotiator, Mr. Tukur Mamu, who is facing a 10-count coercion charge.

Justice Mohammed Umar held that the suspect failed to found wherefore the tribunal should reappraisal its 2 erstwhile decisions that denied him bail pending the determination of the case.

However, it directed that the suspect should beryllium granted entree to prime wellness attraction by the Department of State Services, DSS, which presently has him successful their custody.

While acknowledging the diligence of the prosecution successful the handling of the case, the justice said that aft a cautious perusal of the defendant’s caller application, helium recovered nary exceptional condition that could warrant the tribunal to workout its discretion successful his favour.

He held that the discretionary powers of the tribunal indispensable beryllium exercised judiciously and judicially, based connected worldly facts placed earlier it.

Mamu had done his squad of lawyers led by Mr. Johnson Usman, SAN, prayed the tribunal to bid his merchandise from custody of the DSS to alteration him to question due aesculapian attention.

In a counter-affidavit that was filed by the prosecution counsel, Mr. David Kaswe, FG maintained that the suspect posed a formation risk, adding that the tribunal had earlier declined to merchandise him connected bail.
Mamu was connected March 21, 2023, arraigned earlier the tribunal for allegedly aiding violent operations successful the country.

The Kaduna-based Islamic student was further accused of collecting assorted sums of wealth successful antithetic currencies from families of victims of the bid attack, connected behalf of the Boko Haram terrorists sect.

FG told the tribunal that investigations revealed that the suspect collected an aggregate sum of $420, 000 from families of the victims, arsenic good arsenic N21million from different acceptable of families of the bid attack

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