The Nigeria Police Force yesterday handed over machine guns and other assorted firearms recovered from different criminals across the country to the Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons under the Office of the National Security Adviser.
The arms included 265 automatic rifles, 146 pump action guns, 1,909 locally fabricated pistols, 1,500 locally-made single barrel guns, 98 locally-made double barrel guns, 46 general purpose machine guns, 16 locally-made rocket launchers, 2 locally made Anti-Aircraft guns, 7 Rocket Propelled Grenades, 2,358 assorted calibres of ammunition and 1,057 assorted cartridges.
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The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, represented by DIG Danmallam Mohammed, said the arms were recovered from Imo State, Plateau State, Sokoto and Bauchi States.
He directed State Commissioners of Police and their supervisory Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to aggressively sustain the mop-up exercise.
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