Zamfara Police Arrest Algerian National For Transborder Arms Trafficking
The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 58-year-old Algerian national for alleged involvement in transborder arms trafficking.
The Algerian national was apprehended at the Illela border point, as confirmed by Mohammed Dalijan, the Zamfara Commissioner of Police, during a press briefing in Gusau on Tuesday.
The suspected Algerian confessed to the police that he had been engaging in this criminal activity for the past eight years.
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”The suspect supplies arms and ammunition to bandits in all parts of north west states.
” At the point of the arrest, four AK47 were recovered from him,” he said.
Dalijan further stated that the police recovered 16 AK47 rifles during various operations over the last three weeks.
According to him, the command also retrieved a locally manufactured pistol and a double barrel from a suspected arms manufacturer in Jos, Plateau.
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”The command, acting on intelligence traced and arrested an arms manufacturer in Jos, tracked and arrested a regional arms trafficker from Algeria at the Illela border point.”
According to Dalijan, the police detained various suspects, including bandit motorcycle suppliers.
“The police recovered live ammunition and N2.5 million cash, among others from the suspects,” he said.
He also mentioned that the police apprehended several illegal gold miners and seized multiple mining excavators.
The commissioner cautioned that the prohibition on illicit mining imposed by the federal and state governments remained in effect.
(NAN)
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