MAMU: Family explains exhibits DSS found in bandit negotiator’s home, office

Tukur Mamu’s family has reacted to different claims the DSS has been making as it raids the homes and ofi of the embattled bandit negotiator and his relatives.

The National Daily has reported two raid son Mamu since his repatriation from Cairo to Kano on Wednesday.

The raid at dawn o Thursday saw the DSS cart away laptops, phones, and military uniforms.

Reacting to the allegations in a statement which the management of Desert Herald, the Kaduna based newspaper Mamu publishes, the family said the DSS claims are cooked up.

“We view this deliberate distortion of facts with the intention of twisting narratives about Tukur Mamu with exception,” Ibrahim Mada, head of operations, said in the statement.

“The department made allusions that military accoutrements and hard currency were found in the home of Tukur Mamu with a view to sway public opinion against the publisher who has made supreme sacrifices towards nixing the raging insecurity in the land.

“The public may wish to know that the military accoutrements found in the home of the publisher belongs to his nephew who is an officer of the Nigerian Navy. Tukur Mamu who played the role of a father, was responsible for the upkeep and school expenses of the nephew till he enrolled in the Nigerian Navy.”

“Again in its desperation to smear the name of Mamu, the DSS said it has found huge amount of hard currency without stating how much it found. It is incumbent for the general public to know that the total amount of the hard currency found in Mamu’s house if converted into naira is less that N1.5m, yet the DSS is trying to make the situation look bad by saying huge haul of hard currency was found in his house.”

“At this point it is pertinent to ask when does it become a crime for someone to within his income limit had foreign currency in his house? Or is it a crime for one to have a member of his family in the Nigerian Armed Forces?

“This distortion of information and media trial against Mamu is a pointer to the desperation of the DSS to rope the man at all cost for the sacrifices he is making to ensure an end to the raging insecurity in the land.”

The DSS has alleged Mamu has terrorist link in Egypt, Libya, other African countries, and Middle East.