Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have picked up Malam Tukur Mamu at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano. Mamu was arrested in Cario and flown back to Nigeria. He was negotiator between the terrorists who abducted train passengers in Abuja and victims’ families.

Daily Trust reports that DSS operatives were stationed at the entrance of the international wing of the airport several minutes before the aircraft landed.

According to their account, heavily armed operatives who were also in company of others dressed in mufti, were on guard at the entrance of the arrival section of the international wing while the three vehicles with Kano plate numbers (two hilux and one hiace) packed by the entrance.