A 34-year-old suspected kidnapper, Sampson Ebiowei, has explained that he got his operational AK-47 rifle from a soldier of the Nigerian Army serving in the Operation Lafiya Dole in the North-East who sold the weapon to him for N300,000.
Ebiowei, who has three wives and four children, said, “I was captured in the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme before, and was being paid N65,000 per month, but my uncle who helped me to get the job said he wanted to be collecting N20,000 from the money. “In anger, I contacted a soldier and friend serving in Maiduguri who sold the gun to me for N300,000 along with 88 rounds of ammunition. I had bought the gun to fight the oil companies in our place, because they had refused to give us jobs.
The state Commissioner of Police, Philip Ogbadu, who paraded Ebiowei and other suspects, said the command had arrested 26 suspected cultists; 17 armed robbers; 11 kidnap suspects and six murder suspects between the end of January and now.He added that the command also recovered 119 rounds of live ammunition and eight vehicles.
According to Ogbadu, the command will collaborate with local hunters, vigilantes, and sister agencies to bring down the rate of crime in the state.
PoliceNG 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾😂😂😂
PoliceNG That's a frustrated and dead country, no peace until biafrans settles in biafran homes.
PoliceNG Okay nah...chai
PoliceNG Another Fulani man
PoliceNG That's serious
PoliceNG SR has been dishing out some damning reports. 🤔
PoliceNG The same Police have never arrested any Illegally owned and brandished AK-47 from herders.
PoliceNG Why soldier no go sell gun when they're I'll equipped and paid peanuts,most times starve then in Northeast in d name to fighting insurgency,while some pot bellies sit in the office sharing national cake
PoliceNG Wahala b like Nigerian government 😂😂😂... Naija sha
PoliceNG He is the Oga of the fulanis. Whenever fulani is arrested u will find out that his boss is somebody unsuspected, just Bush people can't do this thing on their own. where are they having the rifles. are they farming the rifles? it's not the fulani u need to fight but the boss
PoliceNG Give him 5 koboko lashes he will say the truth he is also a fulani boy.
PoliceNG This rifle na Photoshop God forbid saharareporters fake news
PoliceNG ArmyRobber
PoliceNG Na soooo
PoliceNG ..............Sharp business guy!!!
PoliceNG He should be released abeg....Nigeria has changed.. criminals are no longer criminals...if we can negotiate....since he said job was his problem....make una give am job..cease the gun
PoliceNG Someone said you should not pay bandit's ransom,i laughed.After an investment of procuring gun at 300k you don't want to pay,friend you will join heavenly choir straight.
PoliceNG This is what keep happening
PoliceNG This one no start today
PoliceNG Buhari will still not talk later we be hailing One Nigerian
PoliceNG richville1986
PoliceNG He is Nigerian Army and citizen, I don't think we need state he hails from and am sure he will be prosecute according to our Laws. stopethnicprofiling
PoliceNG It is good he was arrested but I have a question , is it not the same AK-47 that bandits & herdsmen are using to do necklace Arms proliferation is no longer news in the land.
PoliceNG Wait oo..... Who is deceiving who? I just pity innocent soldiers who are just going to a concluding battle.... This is apparently a big set up
PoliceNG This is not new, they killed alot of Boko Haram and most them do not submit the weapons captured to the government. They instead sell it to civilians
PoliceNG Fulani soldiers sell AK-47 ripples to fulani herdsmen but you'll hear them saying is only fulani committing kidnapping crimes.
PoliceNG Little wonder, the devil is black.
PoliceNG Welfare condition of men and officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces is not encouraging, Why won't they steal? Tho it's not an excuse
PoliceNG A country wia impossible tins are possible.
PoliceNG “fulani soldier”
PoliceNG Chai😳
PoliceNG OMO! 😱
PoliceNG Omo
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