Police intercept arms-laden trucks in Kwara

The Kwara State Police command yesterday inter­cepted two vehi­cles laden with arms and ammunition in Kosubo­su, a border town in the Baruten Local Govern­ment Area of the state.

The Police Commissioner, Salihu Garba, who confirmed the incident said the arrests were made at separate loca­tions, adding that he had al­ready dispatched men from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to bring the vehicles and the suspects to the state headquarters of the command.

Police sources said one of the vehicles marked Lagos XU 110 BDG was coming from Burkina-Faso to Ibadan before officials of the Kosub­osu Divisional Police Head­quarters nabbed the driver alongside other accomplices.

According to the source, the ammunitions, which com­prised several cartons of car­tridges and pistols, were kept in a hidden place in the truck. The incident came on the heels of the alarm raised by the state chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani over what he described as increasing spate of violent at­tack against members of his party by people, he claimed, were working for the Peoples Democratic Part (PDP).

Balogun-Fulani, who re­called the recent attack on the official convoy of Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed at Isapa, in Ekiti Local Government Area, also claimed that mem­bers of the party were attacked in Oyun, Oyun Local Govern­ment Area, where five people were shot and others brutally wounded.

He also alleged that some people working for the PDP were destroying campaign billboards of the APC and asked the police to act against such incidence if there were no secret collaboration against the APC.