By Attah Ede
An officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has been apprehended with assorted firearms and ammunition in Abuja by police operatives attached to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command.
The suspect, whose identity is yet unknown was caught around the Zuma area of the FCT on Monday evening.
The Network was reliably informed that the officer who has not been able to give convincing account of how he got the weapons and where he was going with them, was suspected to be supplying arms to robbers.
According to sources, his arrest followed an intelligence report from informants about a missing person.
It was learnt that the weapons recovered from him included rifles and pistols.
“We recovered four AK-47 magazines; four magazines of CZ Scorpion rifle; two CZ Scorpion rifles, 139mm ammunition and two Diakon and CZ pistols,” said a source.
FCT Commissioner of Police (CP) Olatunji Disu confirmed the arrest of the suspect to journalists in Abuja
He said the suspect was being interrogated, adding that further details would be provided later.
“They have just brought the suspect before me and he is being questioned. That’s all I can confirm at the moment,” he said
