The police in Niger State have said the 295 rounds of live ammunition of AK-47 rifles recovered from a poultry farm in Sabon-Wuse, Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State, were about to be supplied to Mangu in Plateau State before the suppliers were arrested.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, said in Minna that four suspects had been arrested while others are still at large.
Parading the suspects at the police command’s headquarters in Minna, the Police Commissioner gave the names of the suspects as Nuhu Abdullahi (25), Yahuza Isah (24) and Mohammed Adamu (42), all of Dadin-Kowa Area of Sabon-Wuse, Tafa LGA.
He said: “On 18/02/2024 at about 1410hrs, information was received that one Nuhu Abdullahi of a poultry farm, Sabon-Wuse area of Tafa LGA, was suspected to be among the hoodlums terrorising the area.
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“Immediately the information was received, police operatives attached to Tafa Division with Tactical Support Team (TST) led by DPO Tafa mobilised to the poultry farm along Garam/Bwari road via Sabon-Wuse and arrested the suspects in connection to the information.”
He said after the suspects were arrested, an immediate on-the-spot search was conducted on the premises of the farm, leading to the discovery of a total of 295 rounds of live ammunition of AK-47 rifle hidden in different bags of grains within the farm.
The commissioner said during interrogation, one of the suspects, Nuhu Abdullahi confessed that his elder brother; Ibrahim Abdullahi (38) of the Mangu area of Plateau State, sent him the sum of N295,000 to purchase the arms and ammunition for nefarious activities in Mangu, Plateau State.
The commissioner also revealed that another suspect, Ibrahim Abdullahi was equally arrested and confessed to the crime, while Yahuza Isah aided and connected Nuhu Abdullahi to Mohammed Adamu, a vigilante man in Sabon-Wuse.
He said during interrogation, the vigilante, Mohammed Adamu, claimed that he bought about one hundred and eighty quantities of the ammunition at the rate of N2,200 each from one Rabiu at Kagarko, Kaduna and took the delivery at Jere, Kaduna State, while one other suspect called Commander Dahiru a vigilante, presently at large, supplied the remaining quantity.
He said a concerted effort is ongoing to arrest both Dahiru and Rabiu, to unravel the source of the ammunition.
“The case is under investigation at SCID Minna and the suspects will be charged to court after the investigation,” he said.
The police commissioner also paraded two suspected bandits and cattle rustlers and recovered one locally made AK-47 rifle.
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