The Egypt Police have arrested the lead negotiator between the terrorists and passengers kidnapped from the attacked occured Abuja by Kaduna train, Alhaji Tukur Mamu.
The Gopde Global Resources gathered that Mamu was arrested in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Tuesday 6, september 2022.
The terrorists’ negotiator was said to have been arrested in Egypt alongside his relatives.
Mamu was said to be on his way to Saudi Arabia for the lesser Hajj when he was detained at the Cairo International Airport.
Efforts by our correspondent to reach out to Mamu through phone calls and text messages proved abortive as a woman was heard speaking when a call got through to his line.
Meanwhile, Mamu’s arrest was coming a few days after the APC vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, visited the publisher and Sheikh Gumi in Kaduna State.
The ex-negotiator personally shared pictures of the visit with our correspondent on Monday 5 september 2022.
Confirming the arrest, the Management of the Desert Herald Newspaper, said the arrest was an attempt to intimidate its publisher.
In a statement on Wednesday by its Head, Special Projects, Ibrahim Mada, the management accused the Federal government of contriving the arrest, taking of Mamu from Egypt to Nigeria.
The statement read, “His patriotic mission to ensure the safety of the hapless passengers made him a target of blackmail by unscrupulous elements in the government who are hell bent in punishing him for this noble but dangerous sacrifice for the fatherland. Such threats and intimidations have forced him to reveal on a number of times that his life was under serious threat.
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