It has been reported that the Department of State Services (DSS) has been preventing lawyers and family members from seeing detained negotiators for terrorists, Mallam Tukur Mamu.
Mamu, who is the publisher of Desert Herald, was arrested last week by Interpol in Cairo, Egypt while awaiting a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia for Umrah (lesser hajj) with his two wives and two sons.
He was detained for 24 hours in Cairo and deported to Nigeria through the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano State, from where the DSS picked him up.
A family source said a team of lawyers, led by Sani Ningi, was at the DSS headquarters in Abuja to visit the detainee but was denied access to him.
Operatives of the DSS had, around 12.30 a.m on September 8, 2022, raided Mamu’s homes and offices in Kaduna where they took away phones, laptop computers, cash, and other valuables.
The DSS had said they found incriminating items, such as large sums of money in different currencies and denominations as well as military accouterments in the home and office of the suspect in Kaduna.
The lawyers, according to the source, attempted to work on how to bail Mamu at the weekend but their efforts did not yield positive results.
It was gathered that Mamu may be arraigned in court today alongside his two sons and father-in-law, Abdullahi Mashi.
