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Terrorist Negotiator, Tukur Mamu, Denied Bail | READ WHY

Faith Ukanwa by Faith Ukanwa
April 28, 2023
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Terrorist Negotiator, Tukur Mamu Denied Bail | READ WHY

Mr Tukur Mamu, a terrorist negotiator, has been denied bail by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Justice Inyang Ekwo, while ruling on the bail application filed by Mamu who is currently in custody of the Department for State Service (DSS) said the court was persuaded by a counter-affidavit the DSS filed to oppose Mamu’s request for bail.

Justice Ekwo held, among others, that Mamu’s application was without merit and that the applicant failed to provide sufficient materials to move the court to exercise its discretion in his favour.

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He noted that the defendant failed to contradict the Federal Government’s averments that he posed a flight risk and that there was a likelihood of him committing more offences.

“Generally, the law is that where averments in a counter affidavit are not countered, they are accepted to be true and correct and they require no further elaboration. This is because facts admitted need no further proof.”

“Again, the court will weigh the evidence to see whether the custodians allow the applicant requisite access to medical treatment peculiar to his medical condition.

“The court will also take into account the attitude of the defendant/applicant to the medical facility provided to him by his custodian.

“Where there is a medical facility by the custodian of the defendant which can adequately take care of the medical condition of the defendant, then the application for bail on medical grounds will not be countenanced by the court”.

“Now, where the defendant willfully rejects the medical facility given to him by his custodian merely for the fact that such facility is not up to the standard that he expects, then, he has no good medical grounds for bail application.

“A defendant who is in the custody of the state or agency of the state like the complainant/respondent must understand that his medical care is at the expense of the state and must be reasonable in his demands,” the judge ruled.

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The judge further noted that evidence before the court proved that Mamu was granted medical attention which he rejected before he was taken to Arewa Specialist Hospital and Diagnostic Center, Jabi by the DSS.

He said the DSS, however, averred that the hospital was sufficiently capable of handling the medical condition of the defendant and that it was able and willing to take responsibility for the treatment of Mamu.

“adequate tests and treatments were administered at the expense of the complainant/applicant and he was diagnosed with Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure was recommended, among other options, at the hospital, ” the judge said.

Furthermore, the trial judge held that Mamu did not rebut the allegation that he earlier breached the terms of an administrative bail that was earlier given to him by the DSS.

He said he was persuaded by the grounds given by the DSS for the court not to exercise discretion to grant bail as prayed by Mamu.

The judge held that in exercising his discretion on the application for bail on allegations contained in a charge sheet punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding three years, “the discretion of the court to grant bail will not be exercised in favour of the defendant where any of the conditions in Section 162 of the ACJA 2015 Is established.”

“With this undertaking, this application for bail on medical grounds does not hold water.

“This application is consequently refused and Is hereby struck out. This is the order of this court” Justice Inyang Ekwo ruled.

Recall that Mamu was on September 6, 2022, arrested in Cairo, Egypt, on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj with his family members. He was arraigned on March 21, 2023 on a 10-count charge bordering on terrorism financing, aiding terrorist operations in the country among others.

He was  also alleged to have collected money in different currencies from families of victims of the train attack, on behalf of the Boko Haram terrorists sect.

FG told the court that investigations revealed that the defendant collected an aggregate sum of $420, 000 from the families of the victims, as well as N21 Million from another set of families of the train attack.

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