Mamu’s arrest won’t hinder efforts to rescue remaining Kaduna train victims – FG

The federal government has said the arrest of bandits’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, will not hinder efforts to release the remaining victims of the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna train attack.

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

Maigari said that there is no cause for alarm since there are other negotiators involved with the kidnappers.

WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that operatives of the secret police arrested Mamu and four members of his family at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport on Wednesday after they were deported from Egypt on the request of Nigeria’s intelligence agencies.

The publisher was said to be travelling to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj together with his two wives, his eldest son, Faisal Mamu and brother-in-law, Ibrahim Tinja.

While Mamu’s wives have been released, the publisher, his son and brother-in-law are still in custody.

Recall that more than 60 passengers were abducted when terrorists attacked the train conveying them from Abuja to Kaduna and 186 days after the tragic incident, twenty-three of them are still in captivity.

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.

According to Daily Trust, Mohammed Sabiu Barau whose younger brother, a Corps member, is still in captivity said that they had left everything in God’s hand

Barau said as a family, they are always hoping to see the day he will be released and return home.

“We are in trauma every day but as Muslims, we are optimistic about the future. We are still praying for Allah’s intervention. Every day, we are hoping to see him return home but we have not heard from him for now.

“But what we heard recently was that the committee set up by the government to look at the situation is doing something about it so we are hoping for the best,” he said.