Court adjourns Mamu’s suit challenging ‘terrorist’ designation

The Federal High Court successful Abuja has adjourned the cardinal rights suit filed by alleged violent negotiator, Tukur Mamu, against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to April 23 for the adoption of written addresses.

Mamu, who is facing coercion charges, is contesting his designation arsenic a “terrorist” by the AGF portion his proceedings is ongoing.

His counsel, Johnson Usman, SAN, argued that the designation violates Section 36(5) of the 1999 Constitution, which presumes an accused idiosyncratic guiltless until proven guilty.
He maintained that lone a tribunal tin designate a idiosyncratic a violent aft condemnation and described the AGF’s enactment arsenic unlawful.

“It is the tribunal that has the powerfulness to designate him arsenic a violent aft helium indispensable person been convicted and sentenced,” Usman told Justice Mohammed Umar.

However, AGF’s counsel, David Kaswe, urged the tribunal to disregard the suit, arguing that Sections 49 and 50 of the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, empower the AGF, upon proposal of a Sanction Committee, to designate immoderate idiosyncratic reasonably suspected of invol...