Police intercept arms-laden trucks in Kwara

arms-laden trucks

The Kwara State Police command yesterday intercepted two
vehicles laden with arms and ammunition in Kosubosu, a
border town in the Baruten Local Government Area of the
state.
The Police Commissioner, Salihu Garba, who confirmed the
incident said the arrests were made at separate locations,
adding that he had already dispatched men from the Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) to bring the vehicles and the
suspects to the state headquarters of the command.
Police sources said one of the vehicles marked Lagos XU 110
BDG was coming from Burkina-Faso to Ibadan before officials
of the Kosubosu Divisional Police Headquarters nabbed the
driver alongside other accomplices.
According to the source, the ammunitions, which comprised
several cartons of cartridges and pistols, were kept in a hidden
place in the truck. The incident came on the heels of the alarm
raised by the state chairman of the All Progressive Congress
(APC), Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani over what he described as
increasing spate of violent attack against members of his
party by people, he claimed, were working for the Peoples
Democratic Part (PDP).
Balogun-Fulani, who recalled the recent attack on the official
convoy of Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed at Isapa, in Ekiti Local
Government Area, also claimed that members of the party
were attacked in Oyun, Oyun Local Government Area, where
five people were shot and others brutally wounded.
He also alleged that some people working for the PDP were
destroying campaign billboards of the APC and asked the
police to act against such incidence if there were no secret
collaboration against the APC.