Four herdsmen were arrested in
Nasarawa for possessing sophisticated arms and ammunition, the Police
Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Police Command in the state,
Michael Ada, said on Friday.
Ada said the items recovered from the
suspects were a PMSG sub-machine gun, one locally made rifle and nine
rounds of live ammunition.
He said that two of the suspects from
Kwala Village in Quanpan Local Government Area of Plateau were arrested
on 26 July, in Lafia by detectives attached to the State Intelligence
Bureau (SIB).He said the arrest of the suspects followed suspicious
behaviour exhibited by them.
He said that upon interrogation the
suspects provided useful information leading to the arrest of two
others, Tukur Usman and Hamza Tukur of Gada-Gwari village in the Kuje
Area Council of FCT.
He said that the suspects confessed to
being in possession two other rifles, which they buried in a farm at the
boundary between Nasarawa and Plateau states.
“Based on the confessional statement, the police followed them to the location and recovered the weapons,” Ada said.
He said the suspects were being detained
at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for further
investigation to ascertain the source of the weapons and other possible
accomplices.
The PPRO urged members of the public to
always be vigilant and report any suspicious movements in their
neighbourhood to security operatives for prompt action.
Source: BusinessDay
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