Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has flayed the Department of State Services (DSS) over the continued detention of his Media Consultant, Tukur Mamu.
Gumi said that the secret police should either charge Mamu, who is the Publisher of Desert Herald, to court or release him from detention.
The Herald had reported that Mamu was arrested in Egypt on Tuesday and sent back to Nigeria on Wednesday and was swiftly picked up by the DSS on terrorism-related allegations.
Mamu recently stepped down as a negotiator between the abductors and the families of the abducted passengers of the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train.
Recall that on March 29, heavily armed gunmen stormed a Kaduna-bound train, killed some passengers, and abducted over 60 others.
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Speaking during his weekly preaching at Sultan Bello Mosque on Saturday, Gumi said that keeping Mamu in detention without charging him to court was an intimidation tactic.
“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,” Daily Trust quoted Gumi as saying.
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