FG reacts to arrest of bandits negotiator, Mamu in Egypt

<p><strong>The <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;OPENLIFE&period;ng">Federal Government<&sol;a> has distanced self from the arrest of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Alhaji Tukur Mamu<&sol;a>&comma; lead negotiator between bandits and the passengers kidnapped from a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Kaduna-bound train<&sol;a> in March&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Openlife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that Mamu who is also the publisher of Desert Herald Newspaper in Kaduna was arrested on his way to Saudi Arabia for lesser Hajj&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was detained at the Cairo International Airport for 24 hours and is being repatriated back to Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting to the development&comma; Minister of information and Culture Lai Mohammed distanced the federal government from the arrest of the lead negotiator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mohammed said this while responding to questions from State house correspondents at the end of the weekly meeting of the executive council of the federal government on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;