Soldiers have arrested two charcoal dealers over allegedly conveying foodstuffs and drugs to bandits in the Akoti Forest in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State.
A community, who disclosed this, said they were arrested at a checkpoint in the Kudiri area on Saturday.
He said the troops, during a stop-and-search on a pickup van, recovered a bag of rice, a gallon of palm oil, drugs, cartons of table water, cough syrup, wines and hemp.
He said, “The soldiers had been on their trail for over a month after they got information that the two charcoal dealers often ran errands for the bandits.”
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He further said that the pickup’s driver was freed after interrogation.
The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, ASP Hassan Mansur, could not be reached for comment on the arrest.
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