•Arrests 2 brothers
It was like a drama scene when the Imo state police command arrested two brothers for illegally arms and ammunition into the state.
Their house were used as the armory where different kinds of pump actions numbering up to 15 ,about seven hundred and fifty cartridges ,different types of assorted rifles ,bullet proof verse inscribe with police inscription on it ,and also bearing the initials of the Imo state state police boss.
The two brothers ,one who was arrested while bargaining on the amount to sell one of the pump action gun , led the police team to where the second brother who confessed how he brought the arms and ammunition from Turkey as a hand luggage to Nigeria some years back when he was comming back to Nigeria.
The suspect who said that he has the licence but since 1982 and that he knew 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.”
Donatus, who hails from Udume-Ogwa in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State said the ammunition was kept in his house for three years until his younger brother stole them and started selling. “I live in Lagos State while my brother used to come from Imo State to steal them from where I kept them and started selling them at cheap price,” he said
Mean while , the state commissioner of police , have promise to make sure that the suspect are charged to court in order to face the full weight of the law.
It was like a drama scene when the Imo state police command arrested two brothers for illegally arms and ammunition into the state.
Their house were used as the armory where different kinds of pump actions numbering up to 15 ,about seven hundred and fifty cartridges ,different types of assorted rifles ,bullet proof verse inscribe with police inscription on it ,and also bearing the initials of the Imo state state police boss.
The two brothers ,one who was arrested while bargaining on the amount to sell one of the pump action gun , led the police team to where the second brother who confessed how he brought the arms and ammunition from Turkey as a hand luggage to Nigeria some years back when he was comming back to Nigeria.
The suspect who said that he has the licence but since 1982 and that he knew 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.”
Donatus, who hails from Udume-Ogwa in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State said the ammunition was kept in his house for three years until his younger brother stole them and started selling. “I live in Lagos State while my brother used to come from Imo State to steal them from where I kept them and started selling them at cheap price,” he said
Mean while , the state commissioner of police , have promise to make sure that the suspect are charged to court in order to face the full weight of the law.
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