SECURITY OPERATIVES ARREST SOLDIER HIRING , SELLING GUNS TO KIDNAPPERS IN ABUJA
Security Forces have arrested a soldier attached to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for allegedly hiring out and selling guns to kidnappers.
Available report indicates that the operation that led to his arrest was carried out last week around Dankogi Park in Zuba in collaboration with members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in the area.
Report also indicates that the Security forces sought the assistance of the local security group in Zuba to arrest the suspect based on previous arms deal allegations against him.
It was learnt that the suspect, in the first deal, had allegedly hired out a gun for a kidnap operation for N300,000.
Then in the second instance, they contacted him for another deal and he demanded N200,000 which the kidnappers allegedly paid, but he failed to produce the gun.
So they contacted him for another deal to supply them with AK-47s to buy at the cost of N3 million.
When the agreement was reached for the arms to be delivered on-site in Zuba, He arrived at the scene in his car to present the arms and that was the time he was apprehended with the gun well-wrapped.
During the arrest, AK-47 rifle, as well as a fully loaded magazine with 30 rounds of ammunition, was found inside one of the safe compartments of his car.
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