*Usman Yusuf, Secretary of the Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee, discloses the Committee has taken custody of the rescued victims, earlier kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists during an attack on a moving passenger train March 28, 2022

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Boko Haram terrorists Wednesday, October 5, 2022, freed 23 remaining captives of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack.

Usman Yusuf, Secretary of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Action Committee, disclosed this development, Channels TV report said.

Yusuf said that the hostages were released at about 4.00p.m. Wednesday.

The Secretary said that the committee took custody of the victims who were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists during an attack on a moving passenger train.

It is recalled the Kaduna-bound train was attacked by armed gangs March 28, 2022.

The terrorists, who attacked the AK9 Train in Kaduna, had before now released hostages in piecemeal with the last release being August 19, 2022.

The insurgents had blown up the rail track and bombed the moving train, killing some and abducting more than 60 passengers. The unprecedented attack had attracted international and national outrage.

Distraught family members had protested several times to demand the release of their loved ones.

Concerned about the eerie situation, the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) temporarily, had to suspend activities, with President Muhammadu Buhari鈥檚 directing security agencies to rescue the victims after he had met with their families.

Mu鈥檃zu Sambo, Honourable Minister for Transportation, had said the Abuja-Kaduna rail line would not resume until all those kidnapped by bandits in March were rescued and reunited with their families.

Tukur Mamu, a terrorist negotiator, was September 6, 2022 arrested in Cairo, Egyptian capital, while on his way to Saudi Arabia, and repatriated to Nigeria the following day.

The Department of State Services (DSS) had alleged that Mamu, who negotiated between terrorists and families of kidnap victims, was part of an international terrorist network and used the cover of journalism to perpetrate his deeds.

However, popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, to whom Mamu is an aide, had reportedly faulted the arrest of Mamu.

Gumi rather asked the country鈥檚 security agencies to charge Mamu to court, if they had any evidence against him, rather than keeping him in custody.

But the DSS, in its reaction, said it would not be distracted by some skewed narratives in the media and requested to be left alone to concentrate on the ongoing investigations, the outcomes of which it said have remained 鈥榤indboggling鈥�.

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