The Imo State Police Command has arrested a suspected gun-runner from Rivers State who allegedly supplies ammunition to kidnapping syndicates operating in the state.
Imo State Commissioner of Police, CP Audu Bosso, disclosed this during a press briefing on Friday. He said the arrest followed the earlier apprehension of members of a kidnapping syndicate who confessed during interrogation about their source of ammunition.
In a related operation, police arrested two suspected kidnapping kingpins: Confidence Vitalis, 28, from Ukugba, Egbema in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, and Ishiaya Rejoice, 32, from Emuoha in Rivers State.
The suspects were nabbed during a follow-up raid on a suspected kidnappers’ and terrorists’ hideout in the Egbema River creek, where operatives also rescued an abducted victim.
“Intelligence obtained from the rescue operation led to the subsequent arrest of the kingpins, and their confessional statements led operatives to the suspects’ hideout,” Bosso explained.
During the operations, police recovered one AK-47 rifle, four AK-47 magazines, sixteen rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, three locally made cut-to-size guns, sixteen live cartridges, one empty Beretta magazine, twenty rounds of GPMG ammunition, one human skull, and assorted criminal charms.
The commissioner added that the gang has been linked to the recent killing of two personnel of the Imo State Homeland Security. Efforts are ongoing to apprehend other fleeing members of the syndicate.
Acting on credible intelligence, operatives also stormed the Obiakpu swamps in Ohaji/Egbema LGA and recovered a large cache of ammunition: 346 rounds of live ammunition (122 AK-47, 148 M16, and 76 rounds of 9mm Beretta pistol ammunition) along with seven magazines.
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