Kaduna-based Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has described the arrest of negotiator for the release of the victims of Abuja-Kaduna train terrorist attack, Tukur Mamu, as an act of intimidation and terrorism.
“This is intimidation (the arrest of Tukur Mamu) is also terrorism. Arresting people unjustly is also terrorism; just like the terrorists do by going to somebody’s house to kidnap him.
“I’m only advising the government to release him so that we can apologize to him to forget what happened,” he was quoted to have said.
Mamu, according to sundry media reports, was first arrested in Cairo, Egypt on his way to Saudi Arabia for Umrah.
He was subsequently brought to Nigeria where the Department of State Service (DSS) took him in and has been investigating him.
In his Friday, September 9 preaching at Sultan Bello Mosque, Sheikh Gumi said that Mamu was arrested because of his role in assisting victims of terrorist attacks, urging the DSS to take him to court to face trial or release him.
“Keeping him in custody despite being a family man is just to intimidate 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.”
The cleric said that God had a way of testing a believer, saying that the arrest of Mamu was God’s way of testing his faith, praying that Mamu would overcome it.
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