The Kwara State police command
has arrested some vehicles laden with arms and ammunition around Kosubosu, a
border town in the Baruten local government area of the state.
Speaking with journalists in
Ilorin on Saturday, the state commissioner of police, Mr. Salihu Garba, who
confirmed the incident, said the arrests were made separately on Friday and
Saturday.
The police boss also said that he
had despatched men from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to bring
the vehicles and the human suspects to the state headquarters of the command.
Police sources said one of the
vehicles nabbed is a truck, marked Lagos XU 110 BDG which was said to be coming
from Burkina-Faso to Ibadan before officials of the Kosubosu Divisional Police
Headquarters nabbed the driver alongside another accomplice.
The police source said that the
ammunitions, which comprised several cartons of cartridges, were kept in a
hidden place in the truck.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the
council area, Mallam Mohammed Omar-Bio while reacting to the development,
described the incident as sad especially at the time that election was
approaching.
The chairman, who also was at the
police station to inspect the ammunition, applauded the men of the Nigeria
Police in the area for their gallantry and doggedness, calling for an immediate
promotion of the officers.
“This has confirmed that those
people that are threatening the existence of Nigeria about the election mean
the business”, he said.
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