Tukur Mamu faces ten terrorism-related charges arising from his relationship with terrorists that carried out last year’s attack on a Kaduna-bound train.
The absence of federal government prosecutors on Wednesday stalled the scheduled trial of Tukur Mamu, charged with terrorism-related offences and a suspicious relationship with terrorists that carried out last year’s attack on a Kaduna-bound train.calling their first witnesses on Wednesday. The matter was the third on the list of cases scheduled for the day.
The remaining 23 kidnapped victims only regained their freedom after six months in captivity on 5 October 2022, following the federal government intervention. While being held in Cairo, the SSS raided his Kaduna residence and office. The SSS claimed that it recovered military uniforms and money during the raid.arrested
He was alleged to have, among others, convinced the terrorists to discuss ransom payments with individual families of the hostages of the train attack instead of the Chief of Defense Staff Committee set up by the federal government for his financial gain. He was said to be in possession of large sums of unexplained cash and property that he tried to conceal upon arrest by directing his proxies to change their locations.
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