Nafiu, a soldier assigned to the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment in Tungan Maje, Federal Capital Territory, was apprehended by agents of the Department of State Services for allegedly renting and selling firearms to kidnappers.Infomation Guide Nigeria
PUNCH Metro learned that the culprit was apprehended last week in Dankogi Park, Zuba, with the assistance of members of the Nigerian Vigilante Group in the area.
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According to a DSS source who spoke to our correspondent, the soldier typically lent firearms to kidnappers for N200,000 or N300,000.
Victims evade kidnappers in Kwara when they demand N10m, then fall asleep. Abductors kill the son of a Bauchi legislator, but release his wife and child. Police and kidnappers exchange gunfire en route from Lagos to Ibadan; one traveller is freed.
According to reports, he was detained after being implicated by kidnappers who were also apprehended.
“They were asked to contact him for another deal to supply them with AK-47 rifles for N3m and he agreed. But he was arrested by operatives of the DSS with a fully loaded AK-47 rifle which he was about to exchange for N3m at the location where the transaction was supposed to take place in Zuba,” the source said.Jamb Result
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