Soldier arrested for selling and hiring guns to kidnappers (See Photos)
•DSS requested the help of the local security team in Zuba to arrest the suspect
By Naomisophy blog
Officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested a soldier attached to Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan-Maje, Abuja for allegedly hiring and selling guns to kidnappers.
The soldier, identified simply as Nafiu, was arrested last week around Dankogi Park in Zuba in collaboration with members of the regional Vigilante Group of Nigeria.
He was reportedly arrested after some kidnappers, who were arrested, implicated him.
DailyTrust reports that the DSS at Gwagwalada office requested the help of the local security team in Zuba to arrest the suspect based on previous arms dealing allegations against him.
According to a source, “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.”
The source said when the kidnappers, who have been in the DSS custody, made the allegation against the soldier, a sting operation was planned against him.
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“So they contacted him for another deal to supply them with AK-47s to buy at the cost of N3 million. We went to the agreed site on the delivery day here in Zuba, and took position. He arrived at the scene in his car to present the arm, and that was the time we came out and caught him with the gun well wrapped,” he added.
An AK-47 rifle as well as a fully loaded magazine with 30 rounds of ammunition were found inside one of the safe compartments of his car.
See the photos below:
