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.
Police intercept arms-laden trucks in Kwara
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