Terrorists Negotiator, Tukur Mamu Got ₦50 Million From Terrorists Says

“During the interview, the defendant admitted giving instruction to Mubarak to move his valuables from his house. He also admitted communicating with the terrorists, using his voice notes extracted from his two phones and Samsung tablet,” the witness said.

The sixth prosecution witness added that the defendant also admitted owning a pump action gun, which was recovered from his house, which he claimed was duly licensed.

The witness told the court that investigators later discovered that the licence expired in December 2021, nine months before he was arrested.

“In one of the voice notes extracted from the defendant’s phone, the terrorists requested him to teach them how to develop a website and the defendant promised to get back to them in that regard,” the witness said.

The DSS official said about 98 percent of the conversation on the voice notes are in Housa language, some of which were translated to English language because they were too many. The witness said he did the transcription.

Kaswe then applied to render the recorded voice notes stored compact disk plates and the flash drive, which the court admitted, following which about six of the recorded conversations were played in court.

When asked to identify the owners of the voices in the conversations, the witness said: “The last two voices are those of Baba Adamu, who is the spokesperson of the terrorists group.

“The first voice note was the defendant, where he was fixing a date for the delivery of ransom.

The second was …that played for 5 minutes is that of Shugaba, who is the leader of terrorist group, who was appreciating the defendant efforts and asked him to take/ remove N50m for his personal use from a particular ransome amount to be sent to them.

“The last note was Baba Adamu, asking the defendant to help them procure public address system, like speakers, for their preaching activities and the defendants assured that he would look into their requests.

“Adamu also requested that the defendant teach them how to create a website for their activities.”

The witness added that in the course of investigation, two victims volunteered written statements in which they recounted their experiences.

The DSS official said the victims, a male and female, were no longer available, because they expressed their unwillingness to attend court to testify because of fear and trauma.

The court admitted the statements of the victims, one was written in English by the female victim, while the other written in Hausa by the male victim was translated into English.

The court admitted in evidence eight statements made to investigators by the defendants and video recordings of the statements writing sessions.

Kaswe subsequently informed the court that he intends to bring a formal application for the court to visit where the items recovered from Mamu’s house and office are kept.

Further hearing in the case resumes at 11am on Wednesday.