Gumi Accuses DSS of Terrorism Over Arrest of His Ally- Mamu
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Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to either release Tukur Mamu or charge him to court.
Citing the law, Gumi said anybody arrested over an alleged crime needs to be
taken to court within 24 hours.
Mamu who negotiated the release of
some of the victims of the Kaduna -Abuja train attack, was arrested at Cairo
International Airport on his way to Saudi Arabia for Lesser Hajj.
He was deported back and picked up by the DSS at Kano
International Airport.
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The DSS subsequently said Mamu has
questions to answer on the rising insecurity in the country.
During
his weekly preaching at Sultan Bello Mosque, Gumi said Mamu was arrested
because of his role in assisting victims of terrorist attacks.
The
cleric, who said God has a way of testing a believer, added that the arrest of
Mamu was God’s way of testing his faith, praying that Mamu would overcome it.
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“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 apologize to him to forget what happened.”
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