Nigeria: Police Parade Seven Suspects With Large Cache of Arms

Vanguard

25 April 2011

Nigeria: Police Parade Seven Suspects With Large Cache of Arms

The Police in Bayelsa State, Monday, paraded seven suspects arrested with large cache of arms and ammunition.

But the suspects claimed they are ex-militants conveying the intercepted arms to the Sector 2 Command of the Joint Task Force to surrender them and embrace the Federal Government's amnesty.

Parading the suspects at the State Police Command headquarters, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, said the suspects were intercepted at night in Ekeki area of the state capital by a police patrol team in a Gulf car with a Lagos plate number BJ 863 APP, on April 15.

According to Shinaba, items recovered from the suspects include 52 locally made single barrel guns, two Sub-Machine Guns, one locally made pistol, one automatic pistol and 72 live cartridges.

While assuring Bayelsans of their safety, he said the suspects would be prosecuted as soon as investigations were concluded.