The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed a five-count terrorism-related charge against Shehu Mahdi, a public affairs and political commentator, before a federal high court in Kaduna state.
The charges border on false publication to cause public
alarm, dissemination of terrorism-related false information, intentional
dissemination of false information, and use of social media to support false
allegations of national security threat.
DSS also obtained an ex parte order to detain the defendant
for 60 days for further investigation, in accordance with the Terrorism
(Prevention and Prohibition) Act of 2022.
Operatives of the DSS arrested Madhi in Kaduna in December
after he posted a video online claiming President Bola Tinubu granted France
the approval to set up a military base in northern Nigeria.
The now-deleted post was uploaded on December 14 and
accompanied by a video of a Nigerian Army officer speaking Hausa while the
background showed a foreign soldier.
Nuhu Ribadu, the national security adviser (NSA), and
Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation, have since
refuted the claims as “baseless”.
On January 1, Madhi was remanded by a magistrate court in
Kaduna state.
A high court later granted him bail on January 9 in the sum
of N30 million and two sureties in the like sum.
The court held that the sureties must be renowned Islamic
clerics.
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