As the countdown to the
general elections in the country continues, the Kwara state police command has
impounded trucks laden with arms and ammunition at Kosubosu, a border town in
Baruten local government council of the state.
The state police
commissioner, Mr. Salihu Garba, who confirmed the incident to journalists in
Ilorin on Saturday, said the arrests were made separately on Friday and
Saturday.
He said he had
dispatched men from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to go and bring
the vehicles and the human suspects to the state headquarters of the command.
Garba vowed that the
state police command would commence full investigations into the incident so as
to fish out other culprits in the act.
Police sources said one
of the vehicles, a truck marked Lagos XU 110 BDG, 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
the ammunition, which comprised several cartons of cartridges, were kept in a
hidden place in the truck.
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