Mamu’s Arrest Won’t Hinder Efforts To Rescue Remaining Train Victims – FG

The federal government has said the arrest of the publisher of Desert Herald, Tukur Mamu, will not hinder efforts to release the victims of Kaduna train attack.

The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dingiyadi, said this after the NSC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.

The embattled bandits’ negotiator was arrested Wednesday, September 7, 2022, in Egypt on the orders of the federal government and brought back to Nigeria where he was arrested by the DSS. The minister said that there is no cause for alarm since there are other negotiators involved with the kidnappers.

Twenty-three victims of the AK9 train attack are still in captivity 186 days after their abduction. More than 60 passengers were abducted when terrorists attacked the train conveying them from Abuja to Kaduna.

Most of the freed passengers paid N100 million ransom allegedly facilitated by Mamu. It was gathered that since Mamu’s arrest, the remaining train victims have not communicated with their family members.