Army troops intercept suspected arms traffickers in Kaduna

Troops of Sector 7 of the Nigerian Army person intercepted suspected arms traffickers and recovered 7 amerciable firearms allegedly meant to beryllium supplied to bandits.

This was made known successful a station by a information expert, Zagazola Makama, connected Monday.

Zagazola said the apprehension happened during a targeted stop-and-search cognition astatine Samaru checkpoint successful Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

According to him, the cognition was carried retired astatine astir 9:40 a.m. connected Monday pursuing credible quality regarding the question of amerciable weapons from Jos, Plateau State, to Niger State.

The information adept disclosed that troops had received accusation that suspected arms racketeers were transporting the weapons successful an ash-coloured Mercedes-Benz vehicle.

He added that portion acting connected the intelligence, information unit identified, tracked and intercepted the conveyance astatine the Samaru checkpoint successful Zangon Kataf.

Army troops intercept suspected arms traffickers successful Kaduna