According to a source, Mr Tukur Mamu, a
popular newspaper publisher in Kaduna has been arrested.
Desert Herald’s publisher was apprehended by 6
armed Nigerian police officers yesterday from his office in Kaduna around 2pm.
Mamu's arrest was said to be sequel to the orders
of a magistrates’ court in a case filed by the minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, and one Ibrahim Bamoi
against the publisher.
Tukur Mamu has been having a running battle with
Mohammed over his (Mamu) insistence on publishing a book entitled “FCT
Administration: The Rot Within!” which is about the administration of Mohammed
as the FCT minister.
Mohammed had filed a case against the propriety of
the publication of the book before an Abuja high court which is still pending
before the court.
It was also gathered that
