- The Federal Authorities has known Tukur Mamu, a creator from Kaduna, along with 14 others, as people pondering about financing terrorism all around the nation
- Mamu has been detained by the Division of Pronounce Services and products (DSS) since September 2022
- Amongst the known financiers are 9 people and six Bureau De Trade (BDC) operators and firms
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FCT, Abuja — The Nigerian Sanctions Committee has complied with the Federal Authorities’s orders and disclosed the names of 15 entities, at the side of 9 people and six Bureau De Trade firms.
These entities are coping with sanctions attributable to suspicions of involvement in financing terrorism.
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As reported by Punch, the list involves:
1. Tukur Mamu
2. Yusuf Ghazali
3. Muhammad Sani
4. Abubakar Muhammad
5. Sallamudeen Hassan
6. Adamu Ishak
7. Hassana-Oyiza Isah
8. Abdulkareem Musa,
9. Umar Abdullahi
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BDCs and diverse firms
10. West and East Africa Classic Trading Company Small
11. Settings Bureau De Trade Small
12. G. Aspect Classic Enterprises
13. Desolate tract Alternate Ventures Small
14. Eagle Square Classic Trading Company Small
15. Alfa Alternate BDC.
On Tuesday, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit released the most modern pattern, titled “Designation of Participants and Entities for March 18, 2024.”
In response to the document, the Nigeria Sanctions Committee convened on March 18, 2024, and known sure people and entities for sanctions attributable to their engagement in financing terrorism.
Tukur Mamu indicted in criminal document
On the forefront of these talked about within the account changed into Tukur Mamu, a creator based in Kaduna, who’s at this time undergoing trial by the Federal Authorities on funds of allegedly assisting the terrorists to blame for the Abuja-Kaduna put collectively attack in March 2022.
As contained within the document, Mamu is accused of involvement in financing terrorism thru the receipt and start of ransom funds totalling over $200,000 US, purportedly in abet of ISWAP terrorists for the liberate of hostages from the Abuja-Kaduna put collectively incident.
The account moreover identifies an particular particular person suspected of perpetrating the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo Pronounce, on June 5, 2022, apart from the assault on the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja on July 5, 2022.
Al-Qaeda terror hyperlink
In response to Day-to-day Belief, one particular particular person changed into known as section of the Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladissudam terrorist community, which is linked to Al-Qaeda within the Islamic Maghreb.
This particular person changed into expert and operated below Muktar Belmokhtar, moreover identified as “One Eyed Out,” who led the Al-Murabtoun Katibat of AQIM in Algeria and Mali.
The NFIU printed that this particular particular person is expert in growing covert communication codes for terrorists and is moreover an expert in improvised explosive devices.
The document states that:
“The arena changed into moreover a gatekeeper to ANSARU chief, Mohammed Usman aka Khalid Al-Bamawi. Equally, he changed into a courier and shuffle manual to AQIM Katibat within the desolate tract of Algeria and Mali. He’s into carpentry. Discipline fled Kuje correctional centre on July 5, 2022. He’s at this time at huge.”
165 killed in March as bandits rampage across states
Meanwhile, the remark of insecurity in Nigeria has reached a fever pitch, and farmers are at the receiving halt.
Reports agree with confirmed that over 160 farmers had been killed in a bandit attack genuine interior March of 2024.
Some of the states tormented by this dastard act embody Benue, Plateau, Niger and diverse states within the south.
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