A Kaduna-based publisher, Tukur Mamu and 14 others have been named by the Federal Government of Nigeria as Sponsors of Terrorism in the country.
Mamu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since September 2022.
This was disclosed in a statement released by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) on Tuesday which revealed that the financiers include nine individuals and six Bureau De Change (BDC) operators and firms.
It was stated that Mamu participated in the financing of terrorism by receiving and delivering ransom payments over the sum of $200,000 in support of ISWAP terrorists to secure the freedom of hostages of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack.
Another was “a member of the terrorist group Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladissudam, the group is associated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.”
“The subject was trained and served under Muktar Belmokhtar, aka One Eyed Out, led Al-Murabtoun Katibat of AQIM in Algeria and Mali,” it said.
“The subject was also a gatekeeper to ANSARU leader, Mohammed Usman aka Khalid Al-Bamawi.
“Equally, he was a courier and travel guide to AQIM Katibat in the desert of Algeria and Mali. He is into carpentry. The subject fled Kuje Correctional Centre on July 5, 2022. He is currently at large.”
