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The Nigeria Police Pressure has apprehended Personal Bara’u Tajuddeen, a soldier with service quantity 22NA/82/3441, over alleged theft of army ammunition and anti-aircraft rounds.
Tajuddeen, assigned to the 19 Particular Pressure Brigade in Maiduguri, was detained on the Maiduguri motor park en path to Kano, reportedly making an attempt to promote the stolen weapons to bandits.
In accordance with a supply on Saturday, Tajuddeen had been below surveillance and was intercepted whereas carrying the stolen ammunition meant for illegal sale.
He stated, “The Nigeria Police Pressure have arrested a soldier recognized as Personal Bara’u Tajuddeen with service quantity 22NA/82/3441, for stealing army ammunition and anti-aircraft rounds meant to promote for bandits.
“Personal Bara’u Tajuddeen, is posted or working with 19 Particular Pressure Brigade in Maiduguri and was arrested at Maiduguri motor park on his technique to Kano, carrying the stolen ammunition.”
Recall that in October, the Nationwide Safety Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, slammed some Nigerian army and police personnel who had been stealing arms and ammunition from their formations and promoting to felony parts.
Ribadu had disclosed this in Abuja throughout the destruction of arms by the Nationwide Centre for the Management of Small Arms And Mild Weapons (NCCSALW).
He had stated, “We have now to discover a method of placing a cease to this. We should if we need to get well our nation and stay in peace and stability. The worst human being is a policeman or a soldier who will take arms from his personal formations and promote them or cover them out for the unhealthy folks to return and kill his personal colleagues.
“We should struggle these folks but in addition there are retailers of loss of life and evil from exterior the world.
“The proliferation of illicit small arms and lightweight weapons stays a significant menace to our nationwide safety, exacerbating points akin to insurgency, banditry, and different violent crimes.”
The NSA had additionally said {that a} sizeable variety of illicit arms getting used to commit crimes within the nation initially belonged to the federal government.
He had defined that the weapons ended up within the fingers of non-state actors because of corrupt parts inside the safety businesses.
Ribadu stated the destruction of arms was a part of efforts to handle the problem of arms proliferation in Nigeria.
The NSA stated by destroying unserviceable, out of date and recovered arms, the federal government was demonstrating its dedication to a safe future for all Nigerians.
He stated, “All illicit arms, not solely unserviceable, all illicit. Any weapon that’s taken is on the market that’s by way of an unlawful course of.
“We have now legal guidelines that govern possession of small arms. If you don’t observe it, it’s an unlawful arm and it’s alleged to be destroyed fully.”
The Director Common of NCCSALW, DIG Johnson Kokumo (retd), stated the arms destruction train was the third in a collection because the centre was established and the primary since his assumption of command.
