Arms Depot Uncovered In Imo State, Nigeria

The special unit of the Imo State Police Command, “Police Ambush Squad,” has discovered a firearms depot at Udume Ogwa in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State. The suspects, Okechukwu and Donatus, who are brothers, were arrested at the depot during alleged negotiation to sell a pump action to a prospective buyer.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Katsina, told Crime Watch that the prime suspect, Donatus, brought the illegal arms and ammunition from Turkey and that though they were licensed but that the licence of the arms had been revoked since 1982.

“It was through information that the Police Ambush Squad received that made them to storm his house and recovered over 13 pump action rifles; other assorted rifles seven hundred and fifty (750) live cartridges; One carton of security torchlights and a bullet proof jacket with the inscription, “Nigeria Police” and bearing the initials of the Imo State Police Commissioner,” he said.

CP Katsina explained that the weapons were recovered at house number 10, Oluwasunji Street, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos State, while at the other suspect’s house at Udume Ogwa, pump action was recovered when it was searched by the police. CP Katsina said the suspect had been selling arms and ammunition illegally in Imo State and that he sold to most criminals in Imo State, who used the arms for kidnapping.

CP Katsina added that the special squad arrested Donatus’ younger brother, Okechukwu, who was selling the arms and ammunition in Imo State, “before we laid ambush and arrested his elder brother, who confessed that he brought the illegal arms and ammunition like hand luggage from Turkey when he was coming to Nigeria three years ago.

The suspect, explained his role to Crime Watch: “I brought the arms and ammunition from Turkey as hand luggage. I have the licence but since 1982 and I know that the Federal Government has embargoed the arms and ammunition. I kept these arms and ammunition in my house where my younger brother, Okechukwu, stole some of the arms and started selling them in Imo State.”

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