A
Lance Corporal of the Nigeria Army was among eight persons arrested by the
Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT for
allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to robbers in Lagos.
Among
those the gang allegedly supplied arms were those robbers who raided commercial
banks in Lekki, Ikorodu, Festac and Agbara areas of Lagos and Ogun State, where
they carted away large sums of money, recently.
It
was gathered that the suspects were picked up at various locations in Lagos,
Ogun, Oyo and Borno states, reseptively, by the SIRT operatives, led by CSP
Abba Kyari, and officials of the
Defense Intelligence.
Six
automatic pump action rifles, a pistol and some cartridges were recovered from
the suspects.
Sources
close to the SIRT disclosed that the army corporal, who was picked up at his
duty post in Maiduguri, Borno State, by men of the Defense Intelligence, is
currently undergoing interrogations at the Defense Headquarters, Abuja.
Vanguard
gathered that a member of the gang, who
was arrested recently by the SIRT operatives, confessed during, interrogations that his gang received
large supplies of arms and ammunition,
from the soldier, who was posted to
Borno State, to fight the Boko Haram
sect .
A
source further disclosed that the soldier would conceal weapons within food
items heading to Lagos from Borno and the robbers who were also involved in
pipeline vandalism Pipeline at Ikorodu and Ijegemo areas of Lagos, would credit
his bank account upon receiving the weapons.
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